Russia ready to give Ukraine a discount on gas

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Russia ready to give Ukraine a discount on gas . This will happen if Kiev pay debt accumulated during the period prior to April 1 .

Told reporters Energy Minister Alexander Novak , currently the size of this debt is $ 2.237 billion

Price and debt
On April 1, the price of Russian gas for Ukraine rose to $ 485 per thousand cubic meters . This happened as a result of the abolition of the two discounts. One of them was provided in December 2013 and canceled due to the fact that Kiev does not repay the debt and did not pay the current supply . Other discount provided by the Kharkov agreements in 2010 in exchange for an extension of the Black Sea Fleet in the Crimea and was canceled after the Crimea to Russia . By this time, Ukraine was due to "Gazprom" more than $ 1 billion

April 10 , President Vladimir Putin sent a letter to the leaders of the European countries , in which he expressed concern about the situation related to the payment of debt by Ukraine for gas delivered , and urged them to work together to solve this problem . Otherwise , said the appeal , if because of debts "Gazprom" to introduce "Naftogaz" advance payment, a threat of stopping the supply and this will complicate the process of filling the Ukrainian underground storage facilities that will certainly jeopardize fuel transit through Ukraine to Europe.

In response to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso sent a letter to Putin , in which he said that the EU has agreed to negotiate , and appointed responsible for organizing the European Commission representative Ettinger . Earlier official representative of OAO "Gazprom" Sergei Kupriyanov said that Ukraine's debt for Russian gas , according to preliminary data , April 30, is $ 3,492 billion

May 8 head of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak said that from June 2014 to Ukraine mode is entered prepayment for gas supplies. According to the official debt of Kiev for gas on May 8 was $ 3.508 billion