The Minister of energy and coal industry of Ukraine Yuriy Prodan confirmed the refusal to pay gas debt Before new supplies of fuel.
However, he continues to insist that the payments, which says Russia is not their debt payments, and prepayment for fresh supplies." If we begin to pay the full payment, then we need to return to the provisions of the contract which specify that gas deliveries occur upon delivery and not prepaid, " said Yuri Sold, quoted " Apostrophe ". Before the first day of the week Russian energy Minister Alexander Novak said that Ukraine did not want to repay a part of the gas debt to gas supplies from Russia. Before that, Novak said that the Russian Federation has proposed a more flexible repayment schedule of Ukraine's gas debt, reducing the size of the first tranche 2 billion to 1, 451 billion. It was also announced that Ukraine asks installments for the repayment of 3, 1 billion debt for gas from Russia for the period till March. In addition, in Kyiv told about the readiness to buy from Russia prepaid only 4 billion cubic meters of gas instead of the proposed 5 billion cubic meters. Previously the head of Naftogaz Andrey Kobelev said that Kiev refuses to guarantee uninterrupted transit of Russian gas deliveries via Ukraine, If not will have concluded a new transit agreement. Novak on September 27, said that Gazprom will supply Ukraine 5 billion cubic meters of gas on terms of prepayment in the case of making all the Berlin agreements. However, the head of Gazprom Alexei Miller said that the repayment of Ukraine's debt for gas from Russia as long as there is no clarity.

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