"We decided. Gazprom is right ... Earlier they earned us from 2 to 7 billion dollars a year. This is if we take together how much we paid for imported gas and how much we received for transit. And now they have to pay us for transit for 1-1.5 billion dollars more than we pay for imported gas. Plus, they owe us $ 4.6 billion compensation for the shortage of gas for transit in past periods ... Therefore, we are restoring the balance - we are giving up 4.6 billion in compensation, "writes Yury Vitrenko, chief commercial director of Naftogaz.

According to him, NAC will also not seek compensation if Gazprom delivers for transit less than the 110 billion cubic meters stipulated by the contract. In addition, Naftogaz will refuse to revise the price for gas under a contract with Gazprom.

"So now we owe Gazprom 2.2 billion dollars for gas, selected in 2014 ...

We also do not refuse to zero compensation to Gazprom for the status of the take or pay contract for previous years. We do not see a problem in that, in this case, we already owe $ 56 billion to Gazprom, and we will still have about $ 20 billion over the period 2018-2019. We believe that behind Gazprom is a kind person, he will regret us, and will change his mind about demanding $ 86 billion from us, "Vitrenko said..

After that, the chief commercial director of Naftogaz left a postscript for Gazprom, where he reminded that on April 1 - Fool's Day.