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Ukraine will not pay for Russian gas which Russia will supply to the territories of self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic, Energy and Coal Industry Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Demchyshyn has said.

“We have no need to pay for gas we do not supply,” he said at a press conference in Kyiv on April 1.

He said that Ukraine supplies gas to Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic, however Russia has not agreed to the independent supply of gas to these areas with Ukrainian authorities.