Tymoshenko promised uninterrupted gas transit to Europe.

SyuzhetyVozobnovlenie transit of gas through the gas Ukrainu20.01.2009Rossiysky reached EvrosoyuzaKommentariiKonets voyne20.01.2009 Gazprom started gas supply to Ukraine and the EU little black plate19.01.2009Timoshenko agreed to pay for Russian gas deliveries 360 dollars Russian gas to Europe via the Ukrainian territory will be uninterrupted. This statement was made by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, reported RIA Novosti. According to Tymoshenko, the transit of fuel from Russia will no longer be interrupted, because Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukrainy had signed agreements for 10 years on gas deliveries and transit to European consumers.
Under the agreement Russia and Ukraine, in 2009, the latter will buy Russian gas from 20 per cent discount from the price at which it sold in Europe. In the first quarter of the cost of fuel for the Ukrainian side will be 360 dollars per thousand cubic meters. January 20, Tymoshenko said that the average price for imported gas in the current year amount to 228.8 dollars per thousand cubic meters.
Tymoshenko added that the cost of process gas, Ukraine needed to maintain the pressure in the transmission system and the transit in 2009 will be 153.9 dollars per thousand cubic meters. The cost of fuel in the transit of Ukrainian territory for the current year will remain at the level of last year and will amount to 1.7 dollars per thousand cubic meters for transportation of one hundred kilometers. In 2010, according to Vice Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Alexander Medvedev, the transit rate increase by about 2.5 to the dollar.
Medvedev also mentioned that the "daughter" of the group of Russian company Gazprom sales Ukraine ", will receive up to 25 percent of the domestic Ukrainian market. "Gazprom sales Ukraine" was established in April 2008 and became the supplier of the gas industry in Ukraine.
Recall from the fact that Ukraine and Russia could not agree on the purchase prices for Russian oil, "Gazprom" on 1 January stopped gas deliveries to Ukrainian consumers. January 7, the Russian side to stop the transit of gas through Ukraine to the EU, accusing "Naftogaz" to illegal tapping of fuel. After a two-week break in transit gas supplies were restored Gazprom on 20 January.
January 20, Alexander Medvedev said that the Russian company reserves the right to demand compensation for damages caused by the halt in gas supplies. "With regard to the previous situation, unauthorized Gas recorded. We reserve the right to claim damages in accordance with contracts," - Medvedev added. Previously, it was reported that Gazprom by 14 January to assess their losses 1,1-1,2 billion dollars.