The gas price will not rise for the population in the current heating season, and a new pricing formula will appear by the autumn of 2018.

This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavel Rozenko on the air of "Channel 5".

"The price of gas in the heating season of 2017-18 will not increase. Economic prerequisites for raising the price of gas are not, "he said..

At the same time, the Deputy Prime Minister noted that "there is a big question to the formula of gas prices".

"When the ministries that initiated this process delved deeper into the heart of the matter, the question arose that the formula was incorrect.

It does not correspond to the real formation of gas prices, "he said..

According to Rozenko, the previously approved formula for the formation of gas prices should be changed.

"Therefore, negotiations with the IMF are now taking place only from the point of view that we need to write down the correct formula, so that no one has any questions - neither in the IMF nor the Ukrainian government, and most importantly, that this formula is understandable to citizens of Ukraine," - Deputy Prime Minister stressed.