“We said that the price of gas for end consumers in Ukraine for direct deliveries can be up to 20% minus in relation to the current level,” RIA Novosti quoted RIA Novosti as saying.
He added that deliveries directly from Russia would be significantly cheaper than reverse supplies from Western Europe.
“This is practically the same Russian gas,” the head of Gazprom said.
According to Interfax, in turn, Medvedev said that the purchase of gas by reverse is the choice of Ukraine, it is their right.
“Although it is obvious that ordinary citizens of Ukraine suffer from this, it’s just consumers who purchase the same Gazprom gas, but, in fact, with a 25% premium,” the Russian prime minister said.
Earlier in Ukraine, they stated that they did not agree to extend the contract for gas transit for one year, since they intended to sign a long-term agreement.
At the end of September, the head of the Naftogaz company Andrey Kobolev said that Ukraine was ready for winter, the volume of gas pumped into storage was the largest over the past nine years.
The leading analyst of the National Energy Security Fund, an expert at the Financial University under the Government of Russia, Igor Yushkov, in an interview with the FAN, commented on a statement by the head of Naftogaz company Andrey Kobolev about Ukraine’s readiness for winter.