To pay for gas supplies $268/thousand cubic meters
Ukraine will pay debts for the Russian gas - $268/one thousand cubic meters, Prime-Minister of Ukraine Arseny Yarseniuk said at the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, RBK-Ukraine (РБК-Україна) reports.
“As regards supply and payment for gas kept in the underground storages and partly used, the position Ukraine adheres to is that we are going to pay $268 per one thousand cubic meters for total gas supplies. Gazprom can interpret it the way it likes, yet we think that the price of gas supplied to Ukraine should be $268. We have $3.1 billion in our accounts given by the IMF and EU. Thus, assuming that the price for gas obtained before by Ukraine is to be $268, Ukraine has the money to fully repay the debt for natural gas”, - said Yatseniuk.
In his opinion, the first tranche of gas debt of Ukraine, in the amount of $1.45 billion, will be soon paid immediately after singing the protocol, while remaining $1.65 billion will be paid till the end of 2014.
