Gazprom reports on gas delivered to occupied Donbas

Russian gas monopoly Gazprom in 2017 delivered 2.427 billion cubic meters of natural gas to the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

According to Gazprom's report for the fourth quarter of last year, it delivered 2.712 billion cubic meters of gas to Moldova, including Transnistria, where the Russian military contingent is located.

Some 38 million cubic meters of gas was also delivered to the self-proclaimed "Republic of South Ossetia" (temporarily occupied territory of Georgia).

Read alsoEnergy expert on TurkStream: Putin's goal to deprive Ukraine of transit state statusAs UNIAN reported earlier, Gazprom supplied 1.5 billion cubic meters of gas to occupied Donbas over the first nine months of last year. Previously, Gazprom said that Ukraine should pay the Russian side $1.3 billion for these supplies.

In late December, the Stockholm Arbitration Chamber ruled that the national oil and gas holding Naftogaz of Ukraine would not pay for natural gas, the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom had been supplying to the temporarily occupied territories of Donbas since 2015.