Gazprom's claim that Naftogaz Ukrainy owes it $7 billion for gas that Ukraine did not buy in 2012 are another attempt to draw Ukraine into the Customs Union, the press office of Ukraine's UDAR party quoted Oksana Prodan, one of its members, as telling the TVi television channel.
Prodan also believes “statements such as these by Gazprom demonstrate the Ukrainian authorities are incapable of defending national interests as they have done nothing to challenge the gas contracts in court.”
Prodan also said her party and faction would ask for a parliamentary enquiry into all aspects of the production-sharing agreement for the Yuzovska shale gas project that Shell has signed with the company Nadra Yuzovska.
“We face two tasks today. Firstly to ascertain what documents the Ukrainian side has signed and to analyze them in order to understand what we will get in return,” Prodan said.
She also said it was necessary to ascertain what impact the project would have on the environment in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, where Yuzovska is located.
