Ukraine will not pay for Russian gas which Russia will supply to the territories of self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic (DPR, LPR), Energy and Coal Industry Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Demchyshyn has said.
"We have no need to pay for gas we do not supply," he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday.
He said that Ukraine supplies gas to DPR and LPR, however Russia has not agreed to the independent supply of gas to these areas with Ukrainian authorities.
Agreement between Naftogaz and Gazprom will set prices at USD 248 for second quarter
Ukraine's state energy firm Naftogaz has signed an agreement with Russia's Gazprom that will extend a discount on gas sales to Ukraine. Prices will be set at USD 248 per 1,000 square metres of gas through the second quarter of this year.
Gazprom earlier this week proposed extending Ukraine's discount on gas for three months as a deal between the two countries was set to expire.
On April 1 Ukraine and Russia have signed deal to extend gas discount
Ukrainian state-run energy firm Naftogaz said on Friday it had transferred million to Russia's Gazprom for further gas supplies in line with an agreement reached this week.
"(We) paid million to Gazprom yesterday," Naftogaz's press service said.
On April 1 Ukraine's state energy firm Naftogaz has signed an agreement with Russia's Gazprom that will extend a discount on gas sales to Ukraine.
Prices will be set at USD 248 per 1,000 square metres of gas through the second quarter of this year.
Gas discount is given under Ukrainian obligation to pay all existent debt to Gazprom(over 2 billion USD -the same debt Ukraine while BS talking threatened to sue Gazprom earlier,the same debt all Western MSM and politicians earlier have said is non-existent,it is based on Gazprom abused and free interpretation of earlier signed contract under another one of Western darlings-Y.Timoshenko).But of course such "unimportant" detail is not receiving much attention.