“Ukraine will not block the valve, Ukraine has never shut the valve. This is important to understand. We don’t have such a tradition - to go on television and say: “We close the valve,” he said in an interview with Deutsche Welle.
According to Vitrenko, in the event that gas will enter the country without an appropriate contract, Ukraine will not "close the valves, stopping the flow of gas."
Earlier, Ukrainian Prime Minister Alexei Goncharuk said that Kiev and Moscow did not conduct separate negotiations on direct deliveries of Russian gas to Ukraine.