Ukraine will pay only for the Russian gas it consumes, Ukrainian Prime Minster Yulia Tymoshenko said after meeting with her Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Sopot on Tuesday.
“Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin] and I have discussed the issue of
Ukraine’s consumption of Russian gas, and the position of the Russian
prime minister is that Ukraine will pay only for the amount of gas it
consumes,” Tymoshenko said.
Putin reiterated that the current world crisis should be taken into account in mutual settlements and supplies.
“My colleague and I have agreed that we will give our respective
economic entities an instruction to take these circumstances into
account,” Putin said.
Putin recalled that Russia understands that “the Ukrainian economy
now consumes as much energy resources as it needs.” “We will operate
under this assumption,” he said.
The details will be discussed by the economic entities, Putin said.
“We believe it would be wrong to limit ourselves to energy issues.
We will prepare a meeting of the economic committee,’ he said,
recalling that Tymoshenko invited the Russian delegation to visit
Kharkiv in October.
“By this time we will prepare and will speak about diversifying our
relations in many areas. The level of cooperation between Russian and
Ukrainian enterprises is often such that these enterprises cannot work
without each other, and that is also true for the aircraft industry,”
Putin said.
