Arseniy Yatsenyuk: It is far from a gas issue, but the plan of Russia how to destroy Ukraine
Behavior demonstrated
by the representatives of Russian Gazprom company during
yesterday’s negotiations “appears a part of the designed plan which started
from annexation of Crimea, terrorists in Donbas, weapon deliveries from Russia and
transporting of Russian bandits to the territory of Ukraine,” the Prime
Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk emphasized at the Governmental session on
Monday, June 16.
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“Gas
aggression, economic pressure, resulting from today’s decision of Russia to
ban import of Ukrainian agrarian goods to the territory of Russia, financial
pressure. And the topmost – collapse of any peaceful process,” Arseniy Yatsenyuk
emphasized. Referring
to yesterday’s negotiations he accentuated a common position of the European
Union, European Commission and Ukraine in gas issue: “Ukraine has agreed to
all compromise proposals elaborated by our European partners. As we, unlike
Russia, realize the responsibility for the energy security of Ukraine and the
European Union”. However, Arseniy
Yatsenyuk stressed, the Russian side “rejected any proposals which were based
on the exceptionally market principle and had no any discriminatory or
politically grounded requirements, put forward by Russia”. He reminded Ukraine
had paid off to the Russian side the sum which is considered undisputed in
relations between Naftogaz and Gazprom
and is worth USD 786 million – calculated USD 268 per 1 thousand cubic meters
of gas fixed in the first quarter of the current year: “We were ready to conduct
further calculations on condition of signing a deal and approving a decision
on future relations between Ukraine and Russia in gas issue”. “But it doesn’t mean
gas. It is a general plan of Russia how to destroy Ukraine. It is one more
stage of Russian aggression directed against Ukrainian state and Ukraine’s
independency,” he emphasized. According to Arseniy
Yatsenyuk, the intention of Russia was completely understandable: “To
announce that the temporary price has grown from USD 268 to almost USD 500,
and then to fix USD 385. And in November-December the Russian Government would
have to announce: we have changed our mind. The plan is clear,
understandable, they have been prepared for that and temporized in order to
wait till winter and put us in the situation they have used to put Ukraine
for two times already. It won’t happen for the third time,” Arseniy Yatsenyuk
said. “We aren’t going to
subsidize Russian Gazprom. The Ukrainian citizens
won’t take out of their pockets USD 5 billion a year to enable Russia to buy
for this money weapon, tanks, planes targeting to bomb Ukrainian territories,”
Arseniy Yatsenyuk urged. “We have
demonstrated to the entire world: we were ready for a compromise. The compromise
elaborated by the European Commission and Ukraine was rejected by Russia on
exceptionally political reasons. Everything suggested by us wasn’t just
market, but profitable including for the Russian Gazprom,”
the Head of Government stressed. Arseniy Yatsenyuk
informed that he would make a report on this issue in the Parliament of
Ukraine on June 17. |