Naftogaz: 'no point' having separate deal with Gazprom on gas supplies for Donbas

17:16, 23.04.2015 1 min read

Ukrainian state oil and gas company Naftogaz "can see no point" in signing a separate contract with Russia's Gazprom on natural gas exports from Russia to eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian firm's chief executive Andriy Kobolev told reporters on Thursday.

The Naftogaz chairman was commenting on a suggestion by Gazprom chief executive Alexei Miller the day before that the two companies consider making a separate deal on gas supplies for eastern Ukraine.

Naftogaz received no official proposal to that effect from the Russian company, Kobolev said.

Miller says Gazprom has supplied eastern Ukraine with 555 million cubic meters of gas worth $174.4 million since February 19, 2015.

Gazprom had announced this winter that it would supply gas for the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic as from February 19 by order of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as Naftogaz had stopped its deliveries for those regions. Naftogaz insists that all gas imported from Russia pass through stations that are named in the 2009 agreement.