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The reserves of natural gas in Ukrainian underground storage facilities (USFs) decreased by 262 million cubic meters (mcm), or 1.7%, to 16.570 billion cubic meters (bcm), in the period from November 14 to November 21, according to PJSC Ukrtransgaz, the operator of Ukraine's gas transportation system.
The company reports that nearly 28.8 mcm of gas was pumped out of the Ukrainian USFs on November 21.
Read alsoUkraine starts pumping gas out of underground storageAs UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine accumulated the minimum necessary volumes of gas for the heating season and ensured uninterrupted transit shipments of Russian gas to the EU. On October 30, it started consuming gas from the USFs, Ukrtransgaz reported.
Earlier, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced the country would need to additionally import about 5 bcm of gas for the heating season.