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Directors at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have approved a project that will provide Naftogaz Ukrainy with $300 million, with state guarantees, to buy natural gas on the European market to fill underground storage facilities for the winter period.

The bank’s board reached the decision at a meeting on Wednesday, Anton Usov, senior communications advisor at the EBRD, told Interfax-Ukraine.