OREANDA-NEWS. September 08, 2009. Ukraine has sufficient amount of gas in its storages and can stop to pump it up. The Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced during a press conference.

 “With general amount of 25.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas in our gas storages we can wind up. 25.5 billion cubic meters are enough to pass the oncoming autumn-winter period, to completely provide our country with the natural gas and also to guarantee uninterrupted reliable export of Russian gas to the EU,” the Head of Government stressed.

According to Yulia Tymoshenko, the mentioned amount exceeds more than eightfold analogous showings of the previous Government when in 2007 the amount of 3 billion cubic meters were pumped into gas storages.

The Head of Government emphasized this amount had been pumped not for one year: financial resources that are to be received after its realization the following summer season will be directed to the purchase of reserve gas amounts.

“We have overcome the problem that couldn’t be overcome before – now Ukraine will have the national reserve of natural gas,” the Prime Minister underlined.