Ukraine managed to duck a gas shutoff earlier this month, but after the latest round of talks on their debt and pricing disputes with Russian exporter Gazprom ended in a stalemate, they’re facing another.
Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller warned today that because of Ukraine’s sizable debt they are on a prepayment system, and if they don’t prepay for any gas, they won’t receive any.
“If Ukraine pays for no volume at all, it means that gas shipments to Ukraine will be zero,” Miller noted. Ukraine’s government has spurned the prepayment scheme, and complained about Gazprom’s plan to charge them the same rate as other European nations, $485 per 1,000 cubic meters.
The last round of talks centered on the price issue, with Russian officials offering $385 per, and Ukraine insisting they would pay no more than $268.50, the level the previous Ukrainian government was paying.
Don't you understand you bad Russians that Ukraine is a particular state and that for that reason Ukraine has not to pay for gaz. Sometimes -if they want- USA and Europ can pay for Ukraine. Ukraine do not accept any blackmail.Ukraine has to reveive gaz for free or pay less than Europe.
fairly normal business negotiations. Ukraine needs the gas, Gazprom need the money. They'll split the difference somewhere along the line.
Yatseniuk told to his ministeries to stop to receive Russian gaz.This guy is crazy and has no
morality : remember when Yanukovitsh (who I do not appreciate) was proposing him a place in the governement in order to stop the violence on Maydan.He refused because he does not care about people.Take also a look on pictures when Yatseniuk meet Obama : you will see that is Yatseniuk who is president of USA.On Russian TV they say that Yatseniuk is a member of an american sect. I don't if it's true. It is not impossible because his sister is living in the USA.
If you treat the one who do business with as enemy, do you expect him to treat you with generosity?
The artilcle has a small error. The price of $268.50 is the price UKRAINE WOULD HAVE PAID IF IT JOINED EURASIAN UNION. As Ukraine never joined the Eurasian Union, that price did not ever apply. So, they never paid at that price, and they actually did not pay for quite some time — at any price. Jatzenyk is a white supremacist, just like his boss Yulia Timoshenko, who made herself rich through her lover, ex-parlamentarian (now in jail in US) stealing Russian gas in chaoso of Soviet Union break up. Both of them are advocating "nuking" of Russians, because they will not give them everything they want for free. And they can afford to mess with the negotiations — Europe and US will have to give them money, gas, food, repay their debts, and make them all rich.
What a bunch of clowns. Hasn't Victoria Nuland be fired yet?