Literally 40 minutes ago, we received an official answer from the Ukrainian side. The answer said 'We cannot sign it' and that is all.
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On Dec. 31, we got a document from Turkmenistan saying that in line with our contract for January, they are shipping 141.7 million cubic meters per day. This volume is the maximum pipelines from Turkmenistan can carry. We were not aware of any gas going to Ukraine. That would have been impossible.
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However, we will not put Ukrainian people into a difficult situation.
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Rejection of the solutions we proposed will play a very bad havoc on the Ukrainian economy and, which is most unfortunate, on the Ukrainian people.
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We have signed a contract based on a European price formula, which allows us to begin selling gas at a price of 230 for 1,000 cubic meters starting from January 1.
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The rest we can sell to North America and China.
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