REUTERS
Gazprom's shipments to the occupied areas of Donbas in the first six months of 2018 grew by 10.4% year-over-year.
Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom says it supplied 1.534 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas to the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine in January-June 2018 (H1).
Gazprom's shipments to the occupied areas of Donbas in the first six months of 2018 grew by 10.4% from 1.389 bcm of gas supplied in H1 2017, according to the company's report.
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As UNIAN reported earlier, Russia's Gazprom stated it delivered 2.427 bcm of natural gas to the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions in 2017. The supplies were not authorized by the Ukrainian side. Gazprom insisted Ukraine should pay the Russian side US$1.3 billion for the gas.
In late December 2017, the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, which considered a mutual dispute between Gazprom and the national oil and gas holding Naftogaz of Ukraine, ruled that Naftogaz should not pay for the natural gas that Gazprom had supplied to the temporarily occupied territories of Donbas.
The Stockholm Arbitration also decided that Ukraine should not pay for Gazprom's future gas supplies to the said areas until Ukraine retakes them.
In late February 2018, Naftogaz stopped receiving Gazprom bills for gas supplied to the non-government-controlled areas in Donbas.
UNIAN memo. Ukraine in late November 2015 stopped buying natural gas from Russia's Gazprom. In total, the country doubled gas imports from Europe in 2015 from 2014, to 10.3 bcm, simultaneously reducing the purchase of hydrocarbons from Russia by 56.5%.