Ukraine’s Naftogaz press service said on Saturday the company has transferred $378 million to Russia’s Gazprom as advance payment for Russian gas, Itar Tass reported. On Friday, Ukraine’s Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Vladimir Demchishin told a news conference that Naftogaz Ukrainy would transfer to Gazprom a prepayment for supplies of one billion cubic meters of natural gas by the end of this week.
