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National joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy has asked OJSC Gazprom to pump 2 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Ukrainian underground storage facilities as compensation for gas on the balance sheet of Chornomornaftogaz in Crimea, Deputy Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Didenko said at a press conference in Kyiv on May 15.

“Naftogaz Ukrainy sent a letter to Gazprom with a proposal to settle the issue at the corporate level on April 28,” he said.

Didenko said that 2 billion cubic meters of gas on the territory of Crimea are the economic possessions of Naftogaz Ukrainy.

“Gazprom was proposed until the settlement of interstate procedures which will also end in court to send 2 billion cubic meters of gas to our storage facilities,” he said.