For almost two years, Ukraine has been living without Russian gas, and at the end of 2017, its own. This was announced by Prime Minister Vladimir Groisman during his speech at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Yalta European Strategy. He also noted the acceleration of reforms that will lead the state to energy independence, the Main reports with reference to Channel 5.

"We live more than 600 days without Russian gas. We started creating conditions in Ukraine for the energy market, which was not in the country. The fact that we made price deregulation in the gas market was an important step. The fact that today we have moved to increase our own gas production, this year we will receive plus 600-700 million cu.m.. m of gas for Ukraine is a huge qualitative indicator. Now we are working on the reform of Naftogaz, "said Groisman.