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President Petro Poroshenko announced the readiness of Qatar to supply gas to Ukraine. On air radio Sputnik analyst Igor Yushkov expressed the opinion that the supply of LNG under any option will cost Kiev much more than buying from Gazprom.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that Qatar is ready to supply liquefied gas to Ukraine, deliveries can go through the LNG terminal in Poland or through the Bosporus.

Poroshenko is on a working visit to Qatar.

"We agreed that Qatar is ready to provide us with liquefied gas," - quotes Poroshenko the press service of the head of the Ukrainian state. The president said that supplies of Qatar LNG are possible through the terminal in Poland, as well as along the Turkish route through the Bosporus. According to him, negotiations on this issue will be held in the near future.

According to Poroshenko, such supplies "will create unique opportunities to increase our energy security."

On the radio Sputnik radio, the leading analyst of the National Energy Security Fund, lecturer of the Finance University under the Government of the Russian Federation Igor Yushkov said: in order for the Qatari liquefied gas to come to Ukraine, it needs either to build an LNG terminal or to pump through other countries, for example, through Poland.

Both options will cost Ukraine more than buying from Gazprom, the analyst believes.

"Building an LNG terminal is Ukraine's long-standing dream, but the problem is that Turkey said it will not allow LNG tankers to pass through its straits, so tankers will not reach Ukraine - even if they build a terminal, at least not build. with Turkey, and here the big question is whether Ankara will do this.Therefore, there is nowhere to send LNG from Qatar.If Kiev goes along the way of supplying Qatari gas through Poland, then, accordingly, it will have to pay LNG itself, transshipment in Poland and delivery to And here the question arises: Ukraine will have to compete with Asian markets, where now the world's largest prices.For now, for Europe, LNG - though from the Qatar, though from America - loses to pipeline supplies .It is not necessary to expect Ukraine that it will be more profitable than pipeline supplies. , somewhere in 1,5 times more expensive than that of Gazprom, Ukraine will cost Qatar gas, it is even more profitable to buy, for example, Poland's Russian pipeline gas than to buy LNG from Qatar and drive it through Poland, "Igor Yushkov said.

Link: https://ria.ru/radio_brief/20180320/1516863686.html