Vladimir Putin on Ukraine’s debt for gas: We can’t wait forever

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the decision to return in a month to the issue of advance payments for Russian gas has nothing to do with the upcoming presidential elections in Ukraine. "We can not wait forever ... We do not want to undermine the Ukrainian economy, nor question the reliability of transit to Europe," - said the head of state on the program "News on Saturday with Sergei Brilev" on the TV channel "Russia 1".

During the interview, Vladimir Putin noted that the special operation of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus cannot be compared with the actions of Kiev in the east of Ukraine.

“The difference is enormous, and it lies in the fact that in the North Caucasus we are faced with the aggression of international terrorism. In fact, they were formed, well-trained gangs that were supplied and armed from abroad. This is a big difference, ”said the president on the air of Russia 1.

Military in Crimea

Vladimir Putin also said that the Russian soldiers who were present in the Crimea during the recent events on the peninsula will receive state awards, but their names will not be made public for some time.

“I think that we will not find out in the near future, but of course there will be state awards,” he said.

Relations with the West

In addition, the president expressed hope for the normalization of relations with the West. Answering the question whether relations between Moscow and Western countries can be adjusted by the end of this year, the head of state said: “It does not depend on us. Or not only from us. It depends on our partners. ”

“I believe that there is nothing that would prevent normalization and normal cooperation,” Putin said.

The president also called on European countries to help the Ukrainian economy and develop measures to finance the budget.

“We urge all European countries, all countries that are interested in supporting the Ukrainian economy, to join the process of helping Ukraine and work out measures aimed at financing the budget,” said Vladimir Putin.

Gas supplies to Ukraine

The decision to return in a month to the issue of advance payments for Russian gas has nothing to do with the upcoming presidential elections in Ukraine, but Russia "cannot wait forever," the president said.

“It’s not about the election at all. We do not associate the economy with the political process in Ukraine. We just had to get money for the gas supplied in March on April 7, we did not wait for them, I repeat once again - this is $ 525 million ... this is by the way at the lowest price, with all the discounts, ”said Vladimir Putin.

The head of state stressed that Russia does not want "to undermine the Ukrainian economy, nor to question the reliability of transit to Europe."

Rumors about the return of Yanukovych

Answering the question of how reliable is the information about the possible appearance of President Viktor Yanukovych ousted from power at Easter in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin said: “You have to ask him that.”

Comments

[Samaritan]

Ukrainians are showing off that we will take Donetsk for debts !!!

[StolzSS]

You are bad with arithmetic buddy for debts we will take everything to the Dnieper, and those who do not wish to stay in the new borders of Russia will send for the Dnieper

[Hans51]

Right, it's time to act!

[radar1967]

Thank you, Hans51 RU. It is high time. The level of Ukrainian sovereignty can be checked on a monometer in the crane unit of the main gas pipeline. And if he starts to show 0.0A, then the Poltava and Lviv women themselves will kill these unfinished Bandera men with mortal combat, since they cannot even cook dumplings on the stove. There is no forest there, and soon there will be no coal, but you won’t warm much on the burner ...

And rest assured, activists of the Right Sector are not activists, they themselves, in six months, will drag both Yarosh and Tyagnibok and their lady with a scythe ...

[aleks700]

You have a bad geography, comrade. For debts we will take to the Carpathians!

[Turkir]

I am also good with higher mathematics even. You are a plus.

[schizophrenic]

Quote: Samaritan

We will take Donetsk for debts !!!

Here, not only Donetsk will be, and the EU will stagger if the gas is cut off, there will be no one to go to the elections in Ukraine. Elections in Europe, when they begin on May 22, begin, what will happen if Russia closes gas to Ukraine.

[PSih2097]

Quote: schizophrenic

Elections in Europe, when they begin on May 22, begin,

May 25, hold our fists for the National Front Marie Le Pen ...

[Mainbeam]

Russia does not want to “either undermine the Ukrainian economy, or question the reliability of transit to Europe

In the entire Ukrainian mess, this is the main issue. Ukrainians think, believe and eat up that the Russians are brotherly people. When it comes to gas. And industry oriented to export to Russia. In all other cases, Russia is the enemy, and we are not brothers.

And Europe is like a drug addict. And he hates Russia, and cannot live without it.
Europe would have hit, so you don’t want to crawl for gas on the karachik.

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: MainBeam

And Europe is like a drug addict. And he hates Russia, and cannot live without it.
Europe would have hit, so you don’t want to crawl for gas on the karachik.

GDP is simply mocking Europe - wagging on the Maidan about freedom and democracy is one thing. And to keep the answer as political, and most importantly - economic, for the near junting ...
They put a local drug addict on a Ukrainian gas station ...

[Boa kaa]

Quote: MainBeam

Europe would have hit, so you don’t want to crawl for gas on the karachik.

"Where the hell are you going to get off the submarine!" (from)
The fact of the matter is that the old Europe has nowhere to go. Well, suppose she leaves, and what does she get?

[52]

And the most offensive thing for the West is that gas from Russia accounts for only a third or a quarter of Europe's needs, while oil supplies are much higher, and alternative green energy sources turned out to be an epic derm, and nuclear power plants shrank. And it seems that they could reorient and restore everything, but there are no denyuzhkov. And the problems of reorientation lie in a "different" plane, and with engineers there are more menagers than inventors, and in their eyes they have not a distant space but carbovanzi.

[Lantau]

The decision to return in a month to the issue of advance payments for Russian gas has nothing to do with the upcoming presidential elections in Ukraine, but Russia "cannot wait forever," the president said.

Sometimes I am very surprised at the patience of our leadership.

[mamont5]

Quote: Lantau

Sometimes I am very surprised at the patience of our leadership.

This is not patience - this is politics.

[avt]

Quote: Lantau

Sometimes I am very surprised at the patience of our leadership.

And what if the South Stream has not yet been built, the liquefaction plant in Yamalo Nenets, too, and so far only one gas carrier has been received from Korea ???

Quote: mamont5

This is not patience - this is politics.

Well, as a concentrated housekeeper in the absence of real trump cards against the third energy package. We are OBLIGED to provide gas to the Euriopeans on the border of the former USSR, that is, on the western border of the Ukraine1991 project. as smart people suggested, gas liquefaction plants in Arkhangelsk and Murmansk, then there would be no such problems.

[shuhartred]

Quote: avt

, liquefaction plant in Yamalo Nenets

And in our company, the company profiled a tender for a part of the metal structures for Yamal and now they have reduced forty people. Me too. Now I am looking for a job. But since

Quote: avt

gas liquefaction plants in Arkhangelsk and Murmansk

they don’t build it, the cat wept in Murmansk.

[Little Muck]

Quote: mamont5

This is not patience - this is politics.

Soon the phrase: “We can’t wait forever",
will turn into "we cannot wait forever".
And then for sure, put out the gas!

[Wanderer H7]

As for me, the valve had to be shut off on April 7th. The same crime is to sponsor the junta. If there were no gas, you would look and you would not throw an army at civilians, you would be more compliant.

[Validator]

There is only one way to solve the gas problem in Ukraine forever:

[Boa kaa]

Quote: Validator

There is only one way to solve the gas problem in Ukraine forever:

"That's really a pipe! Roll out, you know, there are all sorts of lips here" ...from the late EBN.
Russia needs Putin. Judging by the rating and practical cases "With Putin, we will have everything WAY!"

[kocclissi]

Quote: Samaritan

Ukrainians are showing off that we will take Donetsk for debts !!!

Accurate in terms of what Ukrainians are talking about? About those that have a trough? So they are not Ukrainians even once, they are gandons, at best!

[pvv113]

“We urge all European countries, all countries that are interested in supporting the Ukrainian economy, to join the process of helping Ukraine and work out measures aimed at financing the budget,” said Vladimir Putin.

There will be no help from the West - they are dancing to the tune of the United States. And the Americans have already spent - they paid 5 billion to return Crimea to Russia

[Zomanus]

One way or another, they will have to forgive debts. Force or beg ... So you need to do this with maximum benefit.

[chunga-changa]

Under Khasavyurt agreements, Chechnya was effectively granted independence. How its rulers, under American leadership, disposed of it, and how we ended up for them we know. Under the Bialowieza Accords, Ukraine was granted de facto independence. How its rulers, under American leadership, disposed of it, and what we see is where everything is going. So, despite the statement of uv. President, we can say that in general this is the same thing, and the final will obviously be the same. But before that there was still Georgia with a tie eater. Well, life doesn’t teach people anything, it’s just amazing to watch it.

[fly fishing]

Well, since the EU is hard at helping with America, then let them pay for our gas.
In Russia, by the way, not all residents have gas. And the connection costs a lot of money.

[Anatole Klim]

Quote: fly fishing

Well, since the EU is hard at helping with America, then let them pay for our gas.

[kocclissi]

Quote: fly fishing

In Russia, by the way, not all residents have gas

In Ukraine, too, by the way, gas has not been carried everywhere!

[cerbuk6155]

Nothing from Bandera deduct everything to the penny.

[Turkir]

And still they owe us.

[Boa kaa]

Quote: cerbuk6155

Nothing from Bandera deduct everything to the penny.

Well, tell me too! We gave gas to the Government of Ukraine, we will receive debts from it, or do you seriously believe that the next government will be banderlogs ?! I think this will not come to this. At least, we’ll try hard so that it doesn’t come!

[Valkh]

We will make Bandera produce gas !!!

[Valkh]

For Europe !!!

[dchegrinec]

Let them order humanitarian aid from America in the form of 100 kg of peas per snout and produce their own gas without leaving the gate ...

[homosum20]

Merkel is completely overwhelmed - she forgot who made her country the leading economy of the European Union. Well, that’s nothing. He wants to eat - he will remember. (At the same time correct the figure).

[archi.sailor]

Quote: cerbuk6155

Nothing from Bandera deduct everything to the penny.

where are they from? even a penny

[DimDimych]

"Russia 'cannot wait forever,' the president said."

[sv68]

eu let ukroinu raft-pulled ukroinu to him here and help her

[Giant thought]

It is necessary to close the gate valve in Ukraine, and if the West podgavvivat, then him.

[Pastor]

Quote: fly fishing

In Russia, by the way, not all residents have gas. And the connection costs a lot of money.

and whoever has it, we pay a lot ..

[federal]

Close the valve !, but ordinary people in Ukraine feel sorry, but we need to raise our country. Lost money for gas, not built kindergartens in their country ...

[svp67]

“We can’t wait forever ... We do not want to undermine the Ukrainian economy or question the reliability of transit to Europe,”

- once "You are not our brothers", then business and nothing but business, and for those who have not forgotten about truly kindred feelings, our country will figure out how to supply gas ...

[Cristall]

gas is mainly consumed by industry.
It goes without saying that the local is mainly for local consumption and for communal workers. By the way, they have accumulated large debts (people are not able to pay it even at the old rates)
Turning off the gas will stop the industry. Let's look at the map - it does not threaten the memory.
They generally have a gas stranglehold on the drum. She holds only SE where at least something else works or pretends that it works. In particular, by the way, in the center is located the nurse of Ukraine - metallurgy (where gas is not bad) and the chemical also in the southeast.
In short, it is difficult to "hit" the memory with a gas shutdown. In Kiev - while the pipe to the EU, too.
All "strikes" will be in the SE. And only a weak ricochet across Kiev .. and the memory do not care.

[Little Muck]

Quote: Cristall

All "strikes" will be in the SE. And only a weak ricochet across Kiev .. and the memory do not care.

I do not agree. Too superficial analysis.
I will not try to look like a teacher, but read more about the role of Russian gas in the Ukrainian economy. You can’t reduce everything to the banal presence of fire in the comfort of a stove. It at least looks delitant. Do not be offended.

[Was mammoth]

"In short, it is difficult to" hit "the memory with a gas cutoff. In Kiev - while the pipe is in the EU, too.
All "strikes" will be in the SE. And only a weak ricochet across Kiev .. and the memory do not care. "

Quote: I am

In general, stopping production due to the lack of gas with the correct "formulation of the question" will be able to give such an impetus that both the maydanuts and the junta will be demolished at once.

[anfil]

The exact amount of natural gas produced in Ukraine cannot be traced.
This opinion was expressed by the deputy director of the Gas Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Oleksandr PYATNICHKO during the round table “European Gas Market: Is Revolution Coming?”, Organized by the Gorshenin Institute. (13.10.2011g.)
Ukraine produces enough gas for its own economy, and most of the Russian gas was used for smuggling into Europe. Many large Ukrainian states owe their origin to this scheme.
In a situation where the price of Russian gas rises dramatically, its resale to the West is already becoming unprofitable. Therefore, having lost such a possibility of criminal enrichment, a number of groups within the country may be interested in redirecting Ukrainian gas to the needs of the Ukrainian economy. But there are also forces interested in the purchase and transit of Russian gas through Ukrainian territory.

Your problems, patsak, will make him laugh.

[kelevra]

It has long been necessary to make it clear that Ukraine is no different from other countries buying our gas. Friends are friends, and money is sorry, but pay!

[I am]

In general, stopping production due to the lack of gas with the correct "formulation of the question" will be able to give such an impetus that both the maydanuts and the junta will be demolished at once.

[anfil]

Quote: Giant thought

It is necessary to close the gate valve in Ukraine, and if the West podgavvivat, then him.

Where to close Ukraine ?!

[I am Russian]

Gas, Gas, Gas
Gas, Gas, Gas, Gas, Gas, Gas
Gas, Gas, Gas, Gas, Gas, Gas, Gas

[HAM]

It is only now that the inhabitants of Ukraine have begun to slowly understand what happened. When prices flooded up, the best "democratizer" is an empty stomach, but the most interesting thing is: they earn a living in Russia (very many) and they defame it. And what are these standards! ??

[Lelek]

Well yes. Only when the Ukrainian citizen is muzzled on the floor, he will understand that it was good, but it became bad. But we cannot wait for him to understand this. Energy resources are our Russian money and giving them bankrupt is, to put it mildly, stupid. The West will not give money, and, if it does, then on bail - Ukraine.

[siberalt]

Eternal delay for gas. Pay - or! Well, at least someone, even Khazin himself knows all the ins and outs in this matter? There are no less internal and political ties than in the delivery and landing program of the rover.

[Stinger]

It's time to learn the instructions. On command: "Gases!" get out the wallet, open it with your left hand, with your right hand - transfer the money to the supplier. It is not necessary to wear a gas mask. Money doesn't smell.