Ukraine per day reduced the reserves of gas in underground storage facilities on 0,39% – “Ukrtransgaz” – the economic news Agency PRIME

MOSCOW, Dec 29 /PRIME/. The volume of gas in underground storages (UGS) of Ukraine on 28 December was 12,112 billion cubic meters, down for the day at 0.39 percent, according to data on the website of “Ukrtransgaz”.

the filling level of the storage per day decreased to 39,14% from 39.29% in the previous day.

Russian President Vladimir Putin in late October stated that the insufficient filling of UGS in Ukraine worries Russia. Minister of energy of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak has repeatedly stated that Russia sees risks for gas transit through Ukraine in the winter, because Ukraine exceeded the much less gas than required by regulations. “Naftogaz” considers the volume of gas available to Ukraine, sufficient for the security of Ukrainian consumers with gas during the entire heating season, the company said December 16.

Kiev has stopped purchasing gas from the Russian Federation in November 2015. While Ukraine continues to buy gas transit to the EU. In November 2016, Naftogaz said it was ready to resume gas purchases from Russia in the conditions of the previous “winter packages”.

Russia, Ukraine and the EC on 9 December held a trilateral talks, during which the Ukrainian side expressed its readiness to buy from Russia from 1.5 to 4 billion cubic meters of gas this winter, and Russia confirmed readiness to supply gas to the EU and Ukraine. Novak following the talks, reported that Russia and Ukraine have disagreements on the price of gas in the fourth quarter under the current contract, the Russian gas cheaper than on the spot market.

However, “Naftogaz” reported that the parties have not agreed on the resumption of gas supplies, Kiev insists on signing the additional agreement to the contract with “Gazprom”GAZPthat stop the action of the conditions “take or pay”. Russia, Ukraine and the EC agreed to continue contacts on the gas issue. The head of “Naftogaz of Ukraine” Andrey Kobelev on 15 December said that the company is likely before the end of winter will not buy gas from “Gazprom”.