“I want to assure Ukrainians that the country is ready for the heating season,” Ron Novosti quoted Goncharuk as saying.
He said that Ukraine has “sufficient gas reserves” in storage and “a sufficient reserve of coal in warehouses, and there are enough funds in the budget to protect any low-income family from high tariffs”.
At the end of October, Sergey Pereloma, deputy head of the board of Naftogaz, said during a briefing that Ukraine was ready to go through the heating season, regardless of whether gas transit from Russia through Ukrainian territory continued.