OREANDA-NEWS  On 11 June was announced, that Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko resolutely oppose raising of gas price for the population.

Yulia Tymoshenko Statement

Today the President has held a meeting at the Naftogaz of Ukraine and gave an order to Naftogaz, a strict order, to raise gas price for the population, just at this hard crisis time.

I resolutely oppose raising of gas price for the population. I have assumed a commitment that through the current year gas price for the population will not alter and I will keep my word. I will never afford during the crisis, when people are suffering so greatly, to up gas price and I cannot understand this order of the President.