Ukraine is increasing gas taking from its underground gas storage facilities (UGS) due to cold weather, gas daily selection last day amounted to about 70 million cubic meters, the press service of PJSC Ukrtransgaz has said.

According to the company, starting from December 20 the daily gas taking ranged from 48 million cubic meters to 62 million cubic meters, but this volume is not a record for this December - at the beginning of this month it was about 85 million cubic meters per day.

In general, according to the press service of Ukrtransgaz, in the period from December 1 to December 28 some 1.9 billion cubic meters of gas had been taken from UGS, and from the beginning of the 2015/2016 heating season some 2.7 billion cubic meters of gas.

At the same time, as of December 29, 2015 Ukraine's UGS contained 14.3 billion cubic meters of gas, while gas stocks as of December 29, 2014 were 11.6 billion cubic meters.