OREANDA-NEWS. February 05, 2009. On the outcomes of the Ukrainian-Russian gas talks, Ukraine has obtained favorable a gas price and efficient formula of this price calculator. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko stated, reporting about the Government’s activity to the Parliament.

“Gas price for the population did not change, price for the “Teplocomunenergo” did not change, for the industry, if we even count in dollars, changed by 5-7%. That is the way we have bridged the gas crisis,” Yulia Tymoshenko stated, commenting upon the results of gas talks.

According to her, our state has obtained lower price for 2009 against all countries of the world, except Belarus.

As the Prime Minister stressed, the Government’s opponents fail to criticize the gas price, so they began to level criticism against the formula of this price calculator, “As the price for Ukraine in sum of 228.8 dollars per one thousand cubic meters is the lowest, they can’t say that it is bad, so they claim that formula is bad”.

Yulia Tymoshenko said that such claims are groundless, because the formula of gas calculator for Ukraine is even more advantageous than for Poland, “If we compare our and Polish formula, the gas for Ukraine, even without Russia’s discount, would be by 26.2% lower than for Poland. This is the formula’s efficiency.” The Head of Government reminded that gas for the Ukrainians, including the discount is by 74% cheaper than for the Poles.

Yulia Tymoshenko also underlined that before the current year, all problems in the gas sphere of Ukraine were connected with the RosUkrEnergo Company’s operation. She reminded that actions of this mediator-company had been shadow, corrupt and criminal and covered by high officials of the state.

At that the Prime Minister said that just operative Government had liquidated these criminal schemes, and gas relations with the Russian Federation would be transparent and open now, “This year we have succeeded to make great advance and remove all these things. Now Ukraine has no business with corrupt mediators any more. All the contracts are direct, no corruption, no financial policy at the cost of increased tariffs for the consumers of Ukraine”.