Kremlin promptly responds to proposal of Ukrainian MP Boiko to return to direct gas supplies to Ukraine

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MOSCOW/KYIV. Oct 4 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Gazprom has never denied the possibility of returning to negotiations regarding direct contracts for supplying gas to Ukraine, and this is a matter of negotiations and economic feasibility for the company, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday.

"Gazprom has never denied the possibility. Gazprom is a reliable gas supplier; it has been, it is, and it will remain so. This is all a matter of negotiations and the actual economic feasibility for the company," Peskov said when answering whether proposals had begun in Kyiv on returning to negotiations with Gazprom in order to receive gas directly from Russia, and whether Russia was ready to consider the possibility.

So he answered the question that in Kyiv they began to sound proposals to return to negotiations with Gazprom to receive gas directly from Russia, and whether Russia is ready to consider such an opportunity.

The proposal to return to direct gas supplies from the Russian Federation was voiced by the co-chairman of the Opposition Platform – for Life faction, Yuriy Boiko, at a meeting of the conciliatory council of parliamentary factions in the Verkhovna Rada, which began at 11:00 on October 4.

"I believe that we should return to direct contracts with the Russian Gazprom in the same way as Hungary did," he said.