Ukraine sees 70% rise in gas imports in nine months

Natural gas imports in January-September 2017 grew by 70% year-over-year, to 10.7 billion cubic meters, according to the press service of the Ukrainian GTS operator, Ukrtransgaz.

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"Gas imports from Russia were zero, those from the EU were 10.7 billion cubic meters, which was 70% up on the same period of 2017," it said.

Read alsoUkraine reports record high gas transit shipments in nine yearsAs UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine imported 11.1 billion cubic meters of gas in 2016, which was 7.8% up from 2015.

Last year, gas was purchased only in the EU. In particular, Slovakia supplied 9.1 billion cubic meters, Hungary and Poland sold 1 billion cubic meters each.

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