REUTERS
Ukraine in January-September 2017 stopped the decline in the level of natural gas production and increased it by 3.7%, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said at a government meeting.
"Over the nine months of 2017, we have stopped production decline, as promised, and we increased production by 3.7%, which is 600-700 million cubic meters of our own Ukrainian gas, which we now don't have to purchase abroad. This fuel was produced in Ukrainian subsoil," he said.
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In 2016, Ukraine tentatively increased its gas production by 0.5%, to 19.8 billion cubic meters.