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    Sputnik: Ukrainian PM Believes Country Should Consume Zero Russian Gas

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After floating the idea of a $1 billion loan to buy gas reserves, Ukrainian PM Yatsenyuk has said that he wants his country to bring its Russian gas use to zero

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Sputnik: Ukrainian PM Believes Country Should Consume Zero Russian Gas

Ukraine should bring the consumption of natural gas from Russia down to zero, the country’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has said.

“We have proven that we are able to break our dependency from Russian gas… I want to bring it [the consumption of Russian gas in Ukraine] down to zero,” Yatsenyuk said as quoted in a statement published on the official website of Ukrainian government late on Sunday.

Ukrainian Prime Minister added that in 2014 Ukraine bought only 33 percent of the gas it has consumed from Russia while in 2013 this figure stood at 95 percent.

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