Arseniy Yatseniuk, the leader of the Front for Changes initiative, considers that the reduction in Russian gas consumption by Ukraine won't strengthen its energy independence, but will bring the state to its knees.
Yatseniuk said this in an interview with the Interfax-Ukraine news agency on Wednesday.
Yatseniuk said that Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko at an annual
meeting of the Ukrainian World Congress in Lviv on August 20, 2009, had
announced that Ukraine in 2009 would buy 33 billion cubic meters of gas
from Russia for its consumers, and in 2010 it would buy 25 billion
cubic meters. According to Tymoshenko, the reduction of gas consumption
by Ukraine is the result of the government’s work in making the country
independent of Russian fuel supplies. Along with this, the cabinet is
planning to substitute gas with other kinds of fuel.
“What are you talking about? What energy safety? The optimistic
statements of Tymoshenko’s government are lie from the first to the
last word. The reduction of Russian gas consumption by Ukraine won’t
strengthen the energy independence of Ukraine,” Yatseniuk stressed.
