He urged to completely abandon the import of blue fuel. According to the head of the government of Nezalezhnaya, Kyiv's representatives should not "bow their heads and knees" to Moscow. In Ukraine there are huge gas reserves that will ensure its energy independence. Groisman "always wondered" that his country was buying blue fuel from Russia. "It was necessary to step in December, as any government bent its head and knee, crawled to Moscow and agreed on the price of gas," - said the prime minister at a government meeting on Thursday, July 26. Kiev may well get out of the influence of world prices, start mass production of domestic gas, and then reduce the cost of blue fuel inside the country. Meanwhile, for a couple of weeks, Groisman said that the Ukrainian authorities are thinking of once again raising gas prices for the population. The prime minister himself does not want this, but such measures are "a compulsory step in order to prevent economic catastrophe and the poverty of citizens," recalls RIA FAN. And in March, the head of government announced the plans of the Ukrainian authorities to focus on increasing the production of their own gas. He even called the time when Nezalezhnaya would start importing blue fuel - in 2020. , transfers URA. EN.

Earlier, in November last year, Ukrainian Prime Minister Groisman estimated that at that time Ukraine had not already bought gas from Russia for 720 days. However, buying blue fuel from European intermediaries, Kiev overpaid for it from $ 20 to $ 50 per thousand cubic meters. At the same time, the losses caused by the refusal to purchase directly from Gazprom reached $ 1 billion, the former head of the department of financial control of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry Maxim Goldard.