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National joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy will gradually return 12.1 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas to Swiss-based gas trader RosUkrEnergo (RUE), while RUE will return $1.7 billion to Naftogaz in the near future, the Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Ministry has said.

"The return of gas to RosUkrEnergo will not affect the gas stocks of Ukraine," read a statement from the ministry’s press center issued on Tuesday.