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61% of Ukraine’s total gas imports in January-October 2015 account for the European Union, while the share of Russian energy monopoly Gazprom was only 39%, Ukrtransgaz reported.
According to the state-owned Ukrtransgaz, for over ten months of 2015, Ukraine imported 14.8 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas.
At the same time, Ukrtransgaz said that the share of gas imports from Russia in October was over 80% (1.989 bcm out of a total of 2.4 bcm).
Read alsoTender to select gas suppliers to Ukraine to be held within 2-3 weeks"0.44 bcm of ‘blue fuel,’ or 17% of the total volume of gas imported in October, was received from the European Union. In particular, 0.39 bcm was delivered through the Slovak corridor," reads the statement.
Read alsoGazprom no longer among world's top 10 energy companiesAs UNIAN reported earlier, according to Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, in order to pass through the heating season successfully, Ukraine needs to import another 5 bcm of gas approximately.
Earlier, head of Naftogaz Andriy Kobolev said that on October 31 Ukraine would complete the purchase of 2 bcm of Gazproms gas at a price of $227 per 1,000 cubic meters, and the decision to continue the importing gas from Russia will depend on its price.