Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Yuriy Prodan addressed the open letter to Günther Hermann Oettinger, European Commissioner for Energy in the European Commission.

Yuriy Prodan expressed his appreciation with the readiness of European community to assist Ukraine with supplying natural gas in case if Russia will limit or block the supply or significantly increase the price of natural gas.

According to the letter, Ukraine sees reverse natural gas supply from European Union, in particular Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, as the main tool for overcoming potential supply shortage from Russian Federation.

In 2013 Ukraine imported 2.19 billion cubic meters of natural gas from EU countries.

Total volume of reverse natural gas supply from Europe technically could reach 12 billion cubic meters.

Complete version of the article is available in Ukrainian language.