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Sochi, January 9 (Interfax) - Ukraine was selling gas to its domestic consumers at an excessive price, and the difference went to unknown structures, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said at a meeting with Gazprom chief Alexei Miller.

"Last year, when we were supplying gas to Ukrainian consumers at $179.5, the same gas was sold to the Ukrainian consumer at $320 per 1,000 cubic meters. And the whole margin ended up in the pockets of the structures that we do not know of, which apparently represent somebody's corruptive interests. And the money from those deals was apparently used for political goals or for resolving personal problems," Medvedev told Miller.

The situation is "very sad," he said. "This is blow for an ordinary Ukrainian consumer, people that we care about, people who are close to us," Russia's president said.

Ukrainian consumers should know that the gas, which was supplied by Gazprom at one price, was in fact sold to them at a double price, Medvedev said.