Naftogaz asking Gazprom to extend payment of $2.7 billion in installment until mid-spring

Naftogaz Ukrainy has asked Russia's Gazprom to extend the payment for supply of natural gas in 2013 in installments until mid-April, Gazprom said in an offering memorandum on eurobonds, Bloomberg has reported.

Earlier Russian politicians said that difficulties with the payment for gas supplies at the new reduced price appeared.