State energy company Naftogaz of Ukraine has found an elegant way to reduce prices for blue fuel for owners of large enterprises. And at the same time to please Western creditors who demand raising gas tariffs to the limit. All is very simple: the size of the discount is thrown on household consumers. The message of the state company says that since March, the price of gas sold to industrial consumers on pre-paid terms will decrease by 10.8%. True, such a generous discount will be made only by those who will take in bulk - at least 50 thousand. cubic meters per month. In addition, it is necessary that the enterprise does not have debts to the supplier. The discount will also be made for the subsidiaries of Naftogaz itself,.

As a result, the cost of a thousand cubic meters of gas will be 8,200. UAH (17.35 thousand.

rubles). However, other industrial enterprises also will not remain in the lap. If they do not comply with the above parameters, they still expect a decent discount of 10.5% of the February price. As a result, since March they will buy gas at a price of 9.63 thousand. UAH (20.38 thousand. rubles) per thousand cubic meters. At the same time, for the population the situation will develop in an absolutely opposite way. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine at the request of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is going to change the methodology for determining the price of gas for the population. Its maximum tightened to market indicators. So, it is assumed that from April 1, tariffs for blue fuel for citizens of Nezalezhnaya will increase by 8.3% - from 4.94 thousand, hryvnia to 5.35 thousand. UAH (from 10.45 thousand. up to 11.32 thousand. rubles) per thousand cubic meters. Such prices will be valid for exactly one year, until April 1, 2019. , after which there will be another increase. Such plans cause sharp discontent among the population. Against the revision of the calculation methodology, the parliamentary opposition. But this will not prevent the government of Vladimir Groysman to bring the victory to the end. The fact is that this is an obligatory requirement of creditors, without raising gas tariffs for the population, Ukraine will not list the next tranche of financial assistance. If Kiev does not receive money, then next year the country will officially become bankrupt, as it will not be able to service its huge external debt. Now it already reaches 80% of GDP and continues to grow.

In addition, Ukrainians will have somewhere to take billions of dollars to pay debts to Gazprom and to repay a $ 3 billion loan received from Russia in 2013.

Government of the country in 2015. refused to return it, but the Arbitration Court in London forced Ukraine to pay. By tightening the credit loop around the country's neck, the Ukrainian government charges the payment of foreign debt on the shoulders of Ukrainians. The first confirmation is the growth of gas tariffs. Their miserly salaries and pensions the country's residents are forced to give to the state, so that the authorities can formalize another western loan.