OREANDA-NEWS. Norway could supply the required amount of gas to both Ukraine and the EU countries, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said during a speech via video link in the Norwegian parliament on March 30, Interfax reports. He called Norway one of the "most responsible suppliers of energy resources" and announced the start of negotiations on the supply of about 5 billion cubic meters of gas to Ukraine.

We have already begun a dialogue on the supply of about 5 billion cubic meters of gas to Ukraine for the next heating season. I hope this will become the basis for our long-term cooperation in this area,” Zelensky said.

Earlier, Deputy Director General of the National Energy Institute Alexander Frolov said that Ukraine will have to continue pumping gas through its gas transmission system, primarily because it does not have the leverage to abandon this process.

On March 23, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent an instruction to the government to issue a directive to Gazprom to change the currency of payments for natural gas in existing contracts into rubles. According to the president, the changes will affect only the payment currency in which subsequent payments will be made.