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Ukraine needs to store up at least 18 bcm of gas by Oct 1

Published May 24, 2015 at 9:37 am

An employee inspects a gas installation during a training exercise for handling emergencies at a gas-pumping station on the gas pipeline in the small town Boyarka on April 22, 2015 in the Kyiv region.

Photo by GENYA SAVILOV / AFP

MOSCOW. May 23 (Interfax) - Ukraine needs to pump between 18 billion and 20 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas into its underground depots by October 1 to have enough gas for this autumn and winter, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told reporters on Saturday without saying how much gas is left in the depots today.

Earlier, in the day Russian Prime Minister Dmitriy Medvedev claimed Ukraine is currently paying for Russian gas supplies “in driblets.”