(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Scow june 26 (qna) - russian gas is being transited through ukraine in contracted parameters gas transit amount has made 227 million cubic meters over the past day as the day before yesterday spokesman of russian energy giant sergey kupriyanov told russian news agency (itar-tass).
earlier it has been announced that the gas supplies are fully suspended on june 24-28 and will be cut by 50% from june 28 to july 4 due to maintenance.
daily gas transit supplies amounted to around 185 million cubic meters in the previous week.
in june 16 ukraine energy minster said that russia has cut off its gas supplies to ukraine after the two countries failed to agree on a payment scheme in late-night talks.
although initial reports suggested that oil supplies were proceeding as normal the ukrainian minister said that its supplies had been halted. earlier a source at russia's state-backed gas giant gazprom said that it had reduced gas supplies to ukraine as soon as the deadline passed.
in an official statement gazprom said it had now introduced a prepayment scheme for ukrainian shipments adding that it would continue to supply contracted volumes to its european consumers. it added that it had filed a lawsuit in the stockholm arbitration court to try to recover $4.5 billion it says it is owed by ukraine. (qna)
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