He noted that he had held talks with the chairman of the European and Eurasian Bureau of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Erin McKee.

“The key is the additional volume of gas needed to get through this heating season,” Chernyshov said on Facebook*.

According to the head of the Ukrainian company, the topic of providing assistance to Kyiv in the form of gas compressors, diesel generators and equipment for fuel extraction was also touched upon during the dialogue.

Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky began begging the West for diesel and gas to compensate for the shortage of electricity.

Subsequently, the US transferred 80 generators to Ukraine to maintain power supply.

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