"Gas oligarchs bribed officials in the Parliament to have the taxes reduced. However, on the eve of the elections they are hiding behind the promises to care about the Ukrainian people and provide cheap gas. We are sick of these lies," urged Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk at the meeting of Ant-Crisis Energy Staff on Thursday, October 15.

"The whole Ukraine, during the election campaign, is listening to a fairy tale we have been listening to in the last 20 years: free gas. As I understand petroleum products are free as well? And soon they’ll promise we will have food for free", he stressed.

The Head of Government reminded that in Parliament "some well-known persons told that gas from our northern neighbor would cost US$150": "I answered if it were $ 150, then we would have another tariff. But if it is US$ 250, as we have it today, then return the difference worth US$ 100 back. Then we can change other tariffs in the country."

"We are sick of these lies. We have been listening to these stories about cheap gas and a free sausage throughout 20 years", stressed Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

He stressed that these days Ukrainian gas in storages satisfies the needs of the population. In other case the price would be UAH 7200 per thousand cubic meters instead of UAH 3600 under the social norm as it is now. “And if there hadn’t been the Ukrainian gas, the bills for heat would have been threefold higher than we now have an opportunity to fix".

Arseniy Yatsenyuk emphasized that the essential thing now is to provide citizens with subsidies "and to prevent emerging new gas tycoons": "An attempt of the Parliament to vote a law on rent, allegedly caring about the citizens of Ukraine, is nothing but political corruption and deception. In this law they want to reduce charge for gas oligarchs who stole fields and bribed the Parliament to have their taxes cut down. However, on the eve of the elections they are hiding behind the promises to care about the Ukrainian people and provide cheap gas".