1ST LEAD Ukraine president says gas deal reached with Russia By Wolfgang …
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our dpa-correspondent and Europe Online
Kyiv (dpa) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said he has
reached a deal with Russia to ensure supplies of natural gas to his
country this winter.
The two sides agreed that Ukraine would pay 385 dollars per 1,000
cubic metres of gas between now and March 31, Poroshenko said in a
nationally televised interview on Saturday night.
That is a much lower figure than the 485 dollars that Russian energy
giant Gazprom had so far been demanding.
“I can say that Ukraine will have gas and warmth this winter,”
Poroshenko said.
Poroshenko, who met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Milan
last week, said the agreement could be finalized in Brussels on
Tuesday at a meeting between Russian, Ukrainian and EU officials.
Russia stopped gas deliveries to its western neighbour in the summer
over billions of dollars in arrears.
Kyiv is likely to pay 3.1 billion dollars to Gazprom to compensate
for the unpaid bills before the end of October.
Poroshenko also called on the international community to donate more
money to keep Ukraine‘s economy afloat, referring to the 30 billion
dollars donated so far as “insufficient.”
Also on Sunday, pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine rejected
claims published in German news magazine Der Spiegel that they shot
down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in July.
Separatist leader Andrey Purgin told Interfax news agency that the
magazine‘s claims citing the German intelligence agency BND are
false, instead blaming the leadership in Kyiv for the crash.
Spiegel‘s report says that BND chief Gerhard Schindler told a
parliamentary committee that the rebels had stolen the Buk missile
system from a Ukrainian military stockpile and used it to down the
passenger plane, killing all 298 on board.
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