President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko chaired over a meeting of the National Council of Reforms on Energy Efficiency wherein he presented his estimations of the Russian gas price, which, in his words, must not exceed $180 per 1,000 cubic meters.
“Diversification of the power supply routes, emergence of competitive source coupled with the decline of the global oil and gas prices, has resulted in a reduction of the gas price from $337 in Q1 2015 to $227 in Q4. This year we are anticipating a price close to $160-$180,” the president said.
The president said Ukraine received 92% of gas from Russia in 2013. This figure was reduced to 74% in 2014. In 2015, it was 37%. “This year, the figure is zero,” Poroshenko said.
As EADaily reported earlier, Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller said on June 6 they received an official letter from Ukraine’s Naftogaz with a request to resume the gas supply. “I am speaking about nine months: the second half of 2016 and Q1 of 2017,” he explained.
Miller explained that European gas supply to Ukraine has been reduced. “Reverse from Europe decreased 6.4-fold in June comparing with May and 16.8-fold comparing to April,” he said.
The Russian gas supply to Ukraine was halted in November 2015, when Naftogaz received the pre-paid gas and made no new request to Russia.
Massive Russian strikes on the ports of Ukraine led to the actual blockade of Odessa
German banks demand to compensate them for losses due to anti-Russian sanctions
Putin: We will respond in a mirror way, only several times more powerful — they will feel
The police came to the politician Nadezhdin*, who was declared a foreign agent
Warsaw took pity and handed over several Patriot missiles to Kiev, but with a strict condition
SMO's hero. Captain Cherkashin saved his colleagues at the cost of his life