Ukraine has accumulated $3.1 billion on its accounts, which is intended for the payment for Russian gas supplies, but this is not enough and the country counts on the financial aid from the IMF and the EU, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has said.
“At the moment, we have $3.1 billion on our accounts intended for the payment for the Russian gas supplies. But we need additional financial aid to feel comfortable. The sources of such assistance are the IMF and the EU. I cannot disclose the details of the negotiations, but these are those sources on which we rely. We cannot manage on our own in the current situation,” he said in an interview with the Segodnia newspaper.
Yatsenyuk also said that without gas supplies from Russia, Ukraine will not be technically able to deliver gas in winter to Donetsk and Luhansk.
“In winter, they (the Russian authorities) will create a humanitarian catastrophe there. It will not be technically possible to deliver gas there, because Russia cut off gas supplies to us. Which means that they want to freeze Donetsk and Luhansk,” the prime minister said.
