Poroshenko was immediately caught lying at the parade
Yesterday marked 1000 days since Ukraine stopped buying Russian gas.
President Petro Poroshenko stated this during a military parade on the occasion of Independence Day, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Russia will no longer be able to blackmail us, because we have strengthened our economic independence,” Poroshenko said.
“Since the fall of 2016, by the way yesterday, it was already 1000 days that we have not bought gas from Russia,” he added.
In turn, former Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Andrei Portnov said that Poroshenko is lying about refusing to purchase Russian gas - Kyiv continues to purchase fuel from the Russian Federation under the so-called reverse schemes.
"Lie. Imports. He manipulates documents, swapping contracts and formally hiding behind an intermediary who has never produced gas, and, in agreement with Russia, imports Russian gas from Russian subsoil and from Russian pipelines. Therefore, it is better to spread lies about Russian gas not on Independence Day, but on your birthday or on the anniversary of the first billion stolen in gas,” Portnov writes in his blog.
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