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MOSCOW, March 5 (Itar-Tass) - RIA Novosti. Ukraine buys gas in Europe four times more than Gazprom, said Yuri Vitrenko, the commercial director of Naftogaz.

Vitrenko also thanked all "conscious Ukrainians" for reducing fuel consumption. According to him, after stopping supplies from Gazprom, Ukraine needed to "hold out for one day".

"For a day, Naftogaz has replaced gas, which should be supplied from Gazprom, to gas from Europe, while gas in Europe these days cost one thousand dollars, that is four times more than under a contract with Gazprom," Vitrenko wrote in Facebook.

In addition, the commercial director of Naftogaz expressed confidence that Gazprom was "trapped, which was prepared for the Ukrainian company," because Ukraine was able to ensure the import of raw materials from Europe and "got off the gas needle of Russia."

At the same time, Vitrenko said that "Naftogaz" "earns for Ukrainians, and does not waste money".

Gazprom returned the prepayment and stopped providing gas to Ukraine due to the lack of an agreed procurement protocol. On Saturday, Gazprom's deputy chairman of the board, Alexander Medvedev, said that the Russian company began the procedure for the termination of contracts in the Stockholm Arbitration.

Due to the deficit due to severe frosts in Ukraine, the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of the country limited the consumption of gas until the sixth of March.

Link: https://ria.ru/economy/20180305/1515724266.html