Ukraine in Arabic | Russia will start gas supply to Ukraine on December 11
KYIV/Ukraine in Arabic/ Ukraine will start taking on December 11 the Russian gas for which it paid on December 6, the press service of PJSC Ukrtransgaz has told.
"Ukrtransgaz got the instruction from the [Naftogaz of Ukraine] management to prepare the transport system for the receipt of Russian gas from December 11. The instruction came this morning," a spokesperson said.
As reported earlier, on December 5, Naftogaz Ukrainy transferred to Russian gas company Gazprom $378 million in advance payments for gas supplies of 1 billion cubic meters.
Gazprom confirmed it had received the payment on December 6. After that, an official representative of Gazprom, Sergei Kuriyanov, said that the company could resume gas supplies to Ukraine within 48 hours at the latest. At the same time, no applications have been submitted for gas imports from Russia, he said.
According to the Brussels agreement (the so-called winter package) on the Russian-Ukrainian gas dispute signed as the result of last round of trilateral negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the European Union on October 29-30, the price of Russian gas for Ukraine by the end of the year is $378 per 1,000 cubic meters, and $368 dollars in the first quarter of next year. Naftogaz Ukrainy will have to pay in advance for shipments of Russian gas, according to the agreement.