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Ukraine Reduces Imports of Gas by 35 Percent

People ♦ Published: August 16, 2013; 17:29 ♦ (Vindobona)

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From January to June 2013, Ukraine was able to reduce gas import by more than 35 percent compared to the same period last year, according to Ukrainian Statistics Service.

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In the first six month this year Ukraine has imported 10,296bn cubic meters of gas at a price of $ 4.334bn. Yet, most of the Eastern European country’s gas import still originates from Russia.

In June alone, Ukraine was able to reduce its natural gas import to 0.917bn cubic meters at a total price of $ 383,803m which is almost half of the supply of the same month in 2012, as…