Ukraine imports almost 8.9 bcm of gas in 8 months

Ukraine received 27.9 million cubic meters of gas worth $6.6 million from traders registered in Austria, 313.6 million cubic meters worth $73.1 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, 2.8 billion cubic meters worth $633.5 million from Germany, 779.6 million cubic meters worth $168.8 million from Poland, 741.9 million cubic meters worth $174 million from Slovakia, 305.95 million cubic meters worth $66.2 million from Hungary, 741.96 million cubic meters worth $174 million from France, 104.8 million cubic meters worth $21.85 million from the Czech Republic, and 3.6 billion cubic meters worth $816.7 million from Switzerland, the report says.

Read alsoUkraine's gas production up 3.7%As 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.

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