Cherepovets - Russia will release the next tranche of a loan to Ukraine this week, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Monday, Feb.17.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych says Russia has agreed to discuss gas prices for Ukraine.
The Ukrainian government is negotiating lowering gas prices and getting a loan with Russia, leader of the Party of Regions faction in the Verkhovna Rada, Oleksandr Yefremov, said.
Naftogaz Ukrainy CEO Yevhen Bakulin met in Moscow on Wednesday with Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller to discuss the resumption of Russian gas exports to Ukraine under the existing contract.
Moscow - Gazprom is saying that Ukraine will this winter experience a roughly 30% shortage of gas reserves in underground storage for ensuring the transit of Russian gas to Europe, which will create a catastrophic situation.
Zaporizhia, – Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is still hopeful that Ukraine and Russia could reach a compromise on the price for Russian natural gas.
Ukraine is unlikely to resume Russian gas imports suspended in a pricing row before the end of the year, but has enough in storage and can sustain deliveries to Europe, the Kommersant daily said on Tuesday, Nov.12.
The Russian-Ukrainian dispute has raised fears of a new 'gas war' reminiscent of the winters of 2006 and 2009 which disrupted onward supplies across Europe. Tensions have been compounded by a Ukrainian-EU free trade agreement that Kyiv is due to sign this month despite Russian opposition.
Naftogaz Ukrainy has reduced its August gas debt to Russia's Gazprom from $882 million to $806 million.
Ukraine is currently actively cooperating with international companies in oil and gas production, thus significantly enhancing the country's energy security, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said.
Astrakhan - Naftogaz Ukrainy could find it is required to make advance payments for Russian gas as early as December, assuming the accumulated debt for gas remains unpaid, Gazprom Deputy CEO Valery Golubev told journalists.
"If such terms are written into the contract, and Gazprom has the right to bring this to its Ukrainian partners' attention," Novak said, adding that it could well happen.
Ukraine hopes to resolve the issue of the payment for Russian gas "today or tomorrow," Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytsky has said.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said that the successful completion of the gas talks with Russia is his priority task.
Russian banks have cobbled together a credit of $750 million for Ukraine, and Gazprom has been pumping gas into Ukrainian underground storage facilities at $260 per thousand cubic meters with a discount, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
It is difficult to organize reverse gas supplies from Europe to Ukraine without taking into account the position of Russia's Gazprom, Deputy Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Andriy Bondarenko considers.
Ukraine consumed 32.357 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas in the first eight months of 2013, 7.7% less than in the same period last year, the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry said.
The price of gas for high-income Ukrainians could be increased in three to five years, Vice Premier Yuriy Boiko said at the tenth Yalta annual meeting on Friday, commenting on the increase in the prices of gas in the country.
Ukraine and Gazprom have agreed plans for the fall and winter period, the press service to Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Boiko said after talks with Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller on Sept 27.
Germany's RWE from September 2013 will start pumping gas to Ukrainian underground storage facilities, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytsky told reporters in Kyiv on Sept 27.
National JSC Naftogaz Ukrainy in the period from August 1 to August 10 imported 686.6 million cubic meters natural gas under the contract with Russia's OAO Gazprom.