UNIAN: Naftogaz pays $4.87 billion to Ukraine’s budget in 2018 By UNIAN. Published Jan. 9, 2019. Updated Jan. 9 at 9:51 pm Pedestrians walk past Naftogaz headquarters in Kyiv on Sept. 21, 2017. Photo by Volodymyr Petrov The Naftogaz Group paid Hr 136.5 billion, or $4.87 billion, in taxes and dividends to Ukraine’s national budget in 2018. Read more here.