Russian agency noted that it was more than the debt of Ukraine for gas received in previous years ($ 4.5 billion), which calls for the return of Russia before arbitration court in Stockholm.
By Interfaksu approximately $ 5.5 billion is lost profits for undelivered recipients in EU 16-17 billion cubic meters of blue fuel, and about $ 400 million – of contractual penalties.
In mid-June 2014, Gazprom cut gas supplies to Ukraine because of debts Kiev and the dispute over the price of the raw material. In October, the European Commission through the intermediary of Russia and Ukraine have negotiated an agreement that allowed the resumption of supply in the winter. However, the Ukrainian side has reduced the purchase of gas in Russia to the absolute minimum.
Less blue fuel imports from Russia, Ukraine aligns each of the reverse mode importing gas from Slovakia, Hungary and Polish. De facto re-export of Russian gas. According to Gazprom is illegal dealings.
In September 2014 wanting to stop the return delivery, Gazprom radically reduced raw material exports to the European Union. This move would reduce the surplus of gas on the European market, through which it is possible to reverse the Ukraine.
At the beginning March after visits to Moscow, the Italian prime minister and president Metteo Renzi German company Wintershall Rainer Zele, Gazprom has departed from this practice, and again began to implement the orders of their European partners in 100 percent.
In June last year, the Ukrainian Naftogaz filed in a court of arbitration in Stockholm lawsuit on determining a fair price of gas supplied by Russia in Ukraine. In response, Gazprom has filed a lawsuit against the Ukrainian company, which deals with $ 4.5 billion of outstanding debt for gas delivered in Ukraine. Stockholm court merged the two lawsuits into a single case. Russian experts predict that the resolution of the dispute will be in 2016.
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