The Russian gas monopolist will have to pay the Ukrainian side $ 18 million overpayment for the transit of blue fuel. This decision was made by the Stockholm arbitration.. "In addition to $ 2.1 billion, which, in accordance with the decision of the arbitration, we have already recovered from Gazprom in the form of gas, we have also recovered $ 18 million in cash from Gazprom," the commercial director wrote on his Facebook page Naftogaz of Ukraine "Yuri Vitrenko. According to him, over the past two months, $ 9 million has been written off monthly from Gazprom.. Gazprom has not commented on this. Therefore, it remains unknown whether the representative of Naftogaz is telling the truth or is it his next fantasy. There is a long-standing dispute between Gazprom and Naftogaz over mutual complaints about the transit of Russian gas to Europe through Ukrainian territory.. In February of this year, the arbitration in Stockholm ordered Gazprom to pay the Ukrainian company $ 4.63 billion for the short supply of gas under the transit agreement. However, since the Ukrainian company’s debt to Gazprom was about $ 2.1 billion, Naftogaz was to receive only $ 2.56 billion.. Gazprom after the decision of the Stockholm arbitration is not in their favor, said the initiation of termination of contracts for the supply and transit of gas to Ukraine. After that, Naftogaz announced the confiscation of all the assets of a Russian company that were located in Ukraine.

Naftogaz also reported on the arrest of the Dutch Gazprom assets to pay Ukraine debt by decision of the Stockholm arbitration. In this regard, the Russian company appealed to a Swiss court with a complaint about the arrest of assets. In September, Ukraine announced that interest in the amount of $ 500 thousand is added daily to Gazprom’s debt.. As a result, according to Vitrenko, the amount of debt increased by $ 100 million.

In October, Naftogaz reported that it had sent $ 9 million from Gazprom overpayment for gas transit to pay for these interests..