Tymoshenko instructed "Naftogaz" to take the gas RosUkrEnergo.

KommentariiPoterya doveriya22.01.2009Evrosoyuz started looking for ways to protect themselves against supply disruptions gazaPremer Minister Yulia Tymoshenko asked the "Naftogaz" to take the balance of 11 billion cubic meters of gas belonging to RosUkrEnergo, writes the newspaper Kommersant - Ukraine ". This amount of fuel needed Ukrainian goskompanii in order to supply gas to industrial consumers and budgetary organizations at prices made by the Government.
According Timshenko, the Ukrainian government has already calculated with RosUkrEnergo for the gas, to pay 1.7 billion dollars, which are received from Gazprom for the transit of fuel through Ukraine. Nevertheless, gas has not yet been rastamozhen. In January 2009, the former head of Ukraine Valery Gostamozhni Horoshkovsky said that the agency can not rastamozhit 11 billion cubic meters of gas, because it requires the consent of all shareholders of RosUkrEnergo.
RosUkrEnergo, registered in Switzerland, half owned by Gazprom and half - Ukrainian businessmen. One of the co-owners of the Ukrainian side is Dmitry Firtash. In January 2009, according to the agreement achieved between Russia and Ukraine agreed, the company was excluded from the scheme of supply of Russian gas, but can still deliver the fuel to Europe.
January 23, 2009 RosUkrEnergo threatened to appeal to the Swiss court in the case of exclusion it gas located in underground storage facilities of Ukraine. In doing so, the company announced that it is not sold in stockpile gas.
About that "Naftogaz Ukraine" has bought from Russia 11 billion cubic meters of gas was reported on 21 January. The cost of fuel was 153.9 dollars per thousand cubic meters. On behalf of the RosUkrEnergo agreement not signed, Deputy Head of the legal department of Gazprom Nikolay Dubik. Nevertheless, according to the ordinance RosUkrEnergo, the document can be effective only if it had been signed by both the executive director of the company. In addition to the representative of "Gazprom" his signature was also put Firtash.
In 2009, Gazprom will supply gas to Ukraine from 20 per cent discount to the price calculated by the formula. This is taken as the basic price of 450 dollars per thousand cubic meters. In the first quarter of 2009, Ukraine will pay 360 dollars per thousand cubic meters, the second - 270 dollars in the third - 219 dollars, while the fourth - 162 dollars. This major purchase of "Naftogaz" will make at the end of 2009.