The chairman of the political council of the Our Ukraine Party, Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, has said he believes that instead of the Customs Union, Ukraine should offer a gas alliance to Russia.
"If we talk about friendship with Russia, then we should start as a beginner, as was done by Belgium, Luxembourg and the other three countries that created the European Union, and they formed the Coal and Steel Community, rather than a customs union. Well, let’s create a gas alliance. This will be Ukrainians developing gas fields in Surgut – and we do have experts who would be ready to work on wells, even in Iraq. We can work in Russia and receive a friendly price, rather than a customs, tariff and political price, which means that [the friendly price] will be many times lower than that Ukraine is currently obliged to pay," he said live on Channel 5.