The scheme that Gunther Oettinger, the European energy commissioner, has suggested for European companies to pump gas into Ukrainian underground storage facilities, is impossible to carry out, Alexei Miller, the head of Russia's Gazprom, told Interfax.
Miller said that Naftogaz was pumping gas into its own storage facilities in the country’s west so that it can take gas out of pipelines for its own industry in the east during the winter and use gas from the storage facilities to honor the transit contract with Gazprom in the west, as if this gas had been carried in transit across Ukraine.
“Ukraine pumps gas into underground storage facilities for its own needs,” he said.
