The winter package on gas may be signed during a September meeting between Russia, the European Commission and Ukraine, a draft trilateral agreement was on agenda of the Friday meeting between Russia and the European Commission, Russia’s Minister of Energy Alexander Novak said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 television broadcaster on Saturday.
Ukraine buys 80% of gas it needs in the European Union (EU), Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said Friday while delivering a report in the government.
The European Union (EU) and Ukraine held gas talks on Thursday in Vienna, said a press release by the European Commission.
Russian energy giant Gazprom has increased the amount of its claims against NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine from $23.837 billion to $29.2 billion, according to Gazprom's Quarterly Report.
Rescuers have been unable to extinguish fire in the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear plant for the third day in a row, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said on Tuesday.
The Ukrainian government on Monday announced establishment of an emergency fund of 1 billion U.S. dollars, with the purpose of enhancing the country's energy security, said the Cabinet's press service.
Russia does not want to allow risks in the course of gas transit to Europe through Ukraine, in case Ukraine does not provide gas injection to the underground storage facilities in the necessary volume, the Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said in an interview with Rossiya 24 channel after the trilateral meeting on gas between Russia, Ukraine and the European Union in Vienna.
The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has confirmed reports that the oil depot owned by BRSM-Nafta in Vasylkivsky district near Kyiv has caught fire again and there is a high probability of a new explosion. The death toll of the fire is five people already.
Additional consultations are necessary to clarify the commercial feasibility of the Turkish Stream project, intended to pump Russian natural gas to Europe via Turkey, European Commission Vice-President for the Energy Union Maros Sefcovic said in an interview with Serbian television channel RTS.
Rescue workers have managed to cool down and put out fires in three tanks, one of which was held oil, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine wrote on Facebook page on Wednesday afternoon.
Acid rain may fall in Ukraine and some European countries following a fuel depot fire outside Kiev, a Ukrainian environmentalist said on Tuesday.
A huge fire and explosion on Tuesday killed several firefighters and
hospitalized six others at a fuel depot outside the Ukrainian capital
Kiev, according to the interior minister.
Naftogaz of Ukraine has lodged claims with the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) to demand compensation of loss and amendments to a gas transit contract with Russia's Gazprom.
The forest wildfire that broke out in the Chernobyl NPP Exclusion Zone has been fully put out, the press service of Ukraine's Emergencies State Service said on Wednesday.
Earlier in the day, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said the fire near the disaster site had spread across some 400 hectares. Interior Troops and the National Guard were put on high alert.
A serious lack of firefighting equipment hinders the struggle with a forest fire in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone that started earlier Tuesday, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk told journalists upon return from the fire area.
All permanent members of the Arctic Council as well as observer countries have spoken against politicization of the organization’s work, a source in the Russian delegation that took part in the work of a ministerial meeting of the Council in Iqaluit, Canada, told TASS.
Russia does not plan to renew the contract for the natural gas transit via Ukraine after 2019, Russia’s Minister of Energy Novak said on Monday.
EU-brokered gas talks between Russia and Ukraine on a long-term supply deal due Tuesday in Berlin have been postponed, the EU announced Friday.
Moscow and Kiev have agreed on a gas delivery deal to ensure Ukrainian gas consumption until the end of March, with Ukraine guaranteeing an undisputed transit of gas to the EU, after an EU-brokered trilateral gas talks in Brussels.
