REUTERS
Ukraine in January-July 2017 imported 6.654 billion cubic meters of natural gas totaling US$1.538 billion, according to the State Statistics Service.
Ukraine received 26.1 million cubic meters of gas worth $6.2 million from traders registered in Austria, 268 million cubic meters worth $63.4 million from the United Kingdom, 10.2 million cubic meters worth $2.2 million from Italy, 88.8 million cubic meters worth $19.2 million from Luxembourg, 2.1 billion cubic meters worth $483.3 million from Germany, 621.8 million cubic meters worth $136.1 million from Poland, 29.5 million cubic meters worth $7 million from Slovakia, 157.9 million cubic meters worth $34.1 million from Hungary, 7.76 million cubic meters worth $1.8 million from the Czech Republic, and 2.7 billion cubic meters worth $630.8 million from Switzerland, the report says.
Read alsoUkrainian gas reserves grow 2.7% within weekAs UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine in late November 2015, refused to purchase natural gas from Russia's Gazprom. In general, the country doubled gas imports from Europe in 2015 from 2014, to 10.3 billion cubic meters, reducing by 56.5% the purchase of hydrocarbons from Russia.
In 2016, Ukraine imported 11.1 billion cubic meters of gas from Europe alone. In particular, 9.1 billion cubic meters arrived from Slovakia, 1 billion cubic meters from Hungary, and 1 billion cubic meters from Poland.