"During
the heating season, Ukraine will save an additional sum of US$ 2 billion, we
used to pay to the Russian Gazprom for which Russia bought tanks and
supplied weapons and their mercenaries for the military aggression against
Ukraine", said Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk in 10 minutes
TV program on Sunday, December 13.
Arseniy
Yatsenyuk reminded that there had been debates that allegedly the government's
energy reform wouldn’t have a result and that there wouldn’t be enough gas in
our storages to endure the winter: "Our achievement is every day we
consume gas by 25% less than last year. Thus, every day we pay for gas by US$
11 million less".
"There
were aired threats that we would not endure the winter and would freeze to
death, as Russia was to turn off gas, while we had no other source of supply.
Not to mention the price of gas, which was US$ 500 per thousand cubic
meters. Now we have got rid of the Russian gas domination", said
Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
He
stressed that Ukraine buys gas from European companies at a twofold price - an
average of US$ 250 per thousand cubic meters.
"We
have filled our gas storage facilities. We have paid off the debts. And we have
filed a lawsuit against Russia in court for the unfair gas contract and for the
unfair contract on natural gas transit via the territory of Ukraine",
explained the Head of Government.
"We
were intimidated that through the reform of the energy sector and the
introduction of balanced market tariffs the people wouldn’t have heat in the
house and wouldn’t have an opportunity to pay by these tariffs. We introduced a
program of energy subsidies, in the success of which very few believed, but
which has become real," he emphasized.
Already
5 million of Ukrainian households, almost 15 million citizens obtain direct
assistance from the state "to pay the market and well-balanced tariffs, if
the Ukrainian family needs that": "And whoever earns a lot, whoever
has a large house, whoever has high income, must learn to save and pay himself,
instead of at the expense of the poor".
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