Ukraine is again pumping Russian gas, which Yatsenyuk promised to refuse
Kyiv, December 08 (PolitNavigator, Alexander Semenyuta) – Ukraine began sampling Russian gas on December 8. This was announced by the Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Vladimir Demchishin.
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The decision was dictated by a sharp increase in gas consumption against the backdrop of cold weather and the use of power units of thermal power plants and combined heat and power plants to produce scarce electricity. According to GSE, in recent days the country has been consuming over 200 million cubic meters daily. m of gas per day. With such extraction rates, gas reserves in the underground gas storage facility may be exhausted by the 20th of February 2015.
On the evening of December 5, NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine transferred to OJSC Gazprom an advance payment of $378 million for the supply of 1 billion cubic meters. m of gas in December 2014. Gazprom confirmed receipt of the advance payment necessary to resume supplies of Russian gas from Naftogaz of Ukraine.
An additional agreement to the contract for the supply of natural gas between NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine and OJSC Gazprom, signed on October 30 in Brussels, provides for a maximum daily supply of Russian gas to NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine in the amount of up to 114 million cubic meters. m of gas.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Chairman of the Board of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine Andrey Kobolev repeatedly throughout the year announced their intention to refuse to purchase Russian gas during the 2014/15 heating season.
Ukraine must repay old debts to Russia in the amount of $31 billion by December 3,1, otherwise Moscow threatens to cut off supplies again.
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