Yushchenko has compared the Secretariat "gas war" with the blockade of Leningrad.

SyuzhetyOtklyuchenie gas Ukraine13.01.2009 Naftogaz of Ukraine has confirmed the resumption of tranzitaKommentariiEvrogaz-200912.01.2009Rossiya scored the first goal of the gate of the Ukrainian Russian-Ukrainian gas war is more like the blockade of Leningrad. With such a statement was made by the deputy head of the secretariat of the Ukrainian president Andrei Kislinsky. His words transmits Interfax with reference to the press service of Victor Yushchenko.
According to Kislinskogo, agents of Russian interests in Ukraine have become the local communists, receiving funding for it from abroad. In addition, the secretariat Yushchenko said that Russia and the Kremlin and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's interest in the removal from office of President of Ukraine.
The secretariat Yushchenko also believe that the gas war is to save Russia's Gazprom from bankruptcy. "The transition from 'brotherly' to market relations with Ukraine in the gas sector, hence the need to pay each year in favor of Ukraine additional $ 4 billion, would mean the bankruptcy of the gas monopoly", - said Kislinsky. Earlier, the Russian side claimed that this is Ukraine, not Russia, not want to go to market.
In Yushchenko's secretariat has already reported that the gas conflict was provoked to raise a rebellion in the eastern regions of Ukraine. This version is partly supported and Energy Minister Yuri Prodan, noting that Russia would withdraw from the building steel and chemical plants in eastern Ukraine.
Recall that the Russian side has repeatedly stated that the decision to cut off gas supplies to Ukraine is not guided by political and economic considerations. Nevertheless, January 8, Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin criticized the leadership of Ukraine. "In my opinion, today the situation is that the current leadership in Ukraine is not able to clear the normal functioning of the Ukrainian economy on market principles," - said the Russian prime.
Russian gas is not supplied to Ukraine from January 1, because of the lack of a contract. January 7, was suspended and the flow of gas transit through Ukraine. January 13, these supplies have been partially restored.