OREANDA-NEWS. Naftogaz Ukrainy will receive a bonus of 1% of the $ 2.9 billion paid by Gazprom by decision of the Stockholm arbitration. This was announced by the executive director of the company Yuri Vitrenko."Gazprom should pay under the contract. The whole group will have 1% of the money received", he said in an interview with Liga.net. Thus, the company will receive about $ 29 million. Vitrenko didn't specify how exactly premiums would be distributed at Naftogaz. 

At the same time, Ukrainian media reported that the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine asked the Naftogaz Supervisory Board to suspend the payment of bonuses, since the government intends to "study the contracts of Naftogaz board members and the issue of the correctness of the payment of bonuses". On December 30, 2019, Ukraine and the Russian Federation signed a package agreement on gas transit for 2020-2024 with the possibility of prolonging transit for another 10 years. In 2020, transit through Ukraine will be 65 billion cubic meters, as well as 40 billion cubic meters annually from 2021 to 2024.

The document also provides for the recall of all arbitration and legal claims against each other for which no final decisions have been made, and the future rejection of all possible claims under the supply and transit contracts of January 19, 2009. Under the terms of the agreement, Gazprom also paid Ukraine $ 2.9 billion by the end of 2019 as part of the execution of the Stockholm arbitration decision.