Natural gas reserves in Ukraine remain critically low, which can be a serious challenge to industry. The chemical sector that uses gas as raw materials can particularly suffer.

This was stated by Gennady Ryabtsev, Director of Special Projects of the Scientific and Technical Center "

In his opinion, to overcome the shortage of " However, if the forecasts of the Ukrhydrometenter are justified and the temperature in February will stay within -3 to +2 ° C, it may not be needed for additional imports. According to Ryabtsev, it depends on how true the data of Naftogaz about real volumes of gas in underground storage.

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According to him, the lack of gas can be more hit precisely for industrial enterprises, while there are no threats for households and budgetary institutions.

" For households, there is no hazard for the subjects of the budget sphere, that is, it can not be said that we don’t have enough gas for cooking, but industry can really be just the first victim of Russian attacks and not enough effective policy in this area ”.

Recently, the Minister of Energy Herman Galushchenko said that Ukraine additionally needs at least 1 billion cubic meters. m by the end of 2025. According to the former head of the "