Kiev hopes for consensus on the issue of gas supplies from Russia, If it will not have the opportunity to be judicial consequences, said Tuesday the head of "Naftogaz" Andrey Kobelev.

"Naftogaz" on Sunday, February 22, openly subjected to charge Gazprom in violation of the contract and the tripartite agreements in Brussels When the supply of gas to Ukraine. In response to this on the first day of the week the head of "Gazprom" Alexey Miller said that the supply of gas to Ukraine in the claimed volume 114 million cubic meters per day in just two days, will lead to a complete cessation of supplies, as prepaid gas has only 219 million cubic meters. At the same time Ukraine until now not made a new advance payment for gas, said Miller.

"If the consensus (gas supply) will not be found, then it will be judicial consequences," said Korolev

according to him, the accumulation of gas in the gas storages of Ukraine exceed 8 billion cubic meters." Is March. Needless to say, have the opportunity to be low temperature. We hope that Gazprom will supply the gas for which We had pre-paid. We expect certain issues, but We have some optimism that We can find the correct path, " he said Korolev.

Sobolev thereby confirmed the data previously published by the Association of European operators of the underground gas storages (GSE), which stated that the volume of gas in underground storage of Ukraine on 24 February was 8, 093 billion cubic meters, a decrease of day 0, 3%. According to the information of the GSE, the level of storage has decreased to 25, 33% with 25, 4% on February 23, when in Ukrainian underground storage facilities was 8, 115 billion cubic meters of gas.

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