Gazprom: Ukraine due to arrears or interruption of gas supplies to Ukraine

Published: 2014-03-11    Posted by:ICIS    [Back]

( Gazprom ) Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said Wednesday that Ukraine owed ​​due to the huge cost of gas supplies , Gazprom may interrupt gas supplies to Ukraine .
Miller told the media that the Russian gas Ukraine has yet to be paid in February this year, the cost of natural gas supply , coupled with previous arrears , Ukraine owed ​​Russia $ 1.89 billion . Miller said that Ukraine had actually stopped paying the cost of natural gas supply to Russian gas , but Russia still fulfill its contractual obligations . He stressed that Russia does not provide free gas , Ukraine or repay debt and pay cash on supply costs, or face " breathe " risk.
Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov 1 Sergei has said that Ukraine only full and timely payment of the cost of natural gas , in order to enjoy preferential price . Given the Ukrainian side does not fulfill its obligations stipulated in the agreement , the Ukrainian side , or will not be able to continue to enjoy the preferential price now .
Ukrainian oil and gas company last year at a price of about $ 400 per thousand cubic meters of natural gas purchased from Gazprom . In late December last year , Gazprom and Ukrainian oil and gas company to reach an agreement , the Russian gas price will be $ 268.5 per thousand cubic meters of natural gas to the Ukrainian side to sell .
Russia and Ukraine both countries early in January 2009 but had the price of natural gas supply , transit costs and debt repayment and other issues of dispute , Russia stopped gas supplies to Ukraine , and was interrupted by the Ukrainian gas to Europe.