KIEV (Sputnik) — Ukraine hopes that the price for the third quarter will be lower, Demchishin said in an interview to Ukraine’s Channel 5.
"The negotiations are underway and, I think, that in the course of the next two weeks an agreement on the gas price will be reached, which we will receive from [Russia's] Gazprom during the third and fourth quarter. We actually insist that this extension [of the discount] remains in force up to the end of the heating season."
In the second quarter, the final price for Russia’s gas deliveries to Ukraine has been set at $247.18 per 1,000 cubic meters.
On Tuesday, Russia’s Gazprom Deputy Chairman Alexander Medvedev said that the price of Russian gas for Ukraine in the third quarter of 2015 would stand at $287.15 per 1,000 cubic meters without the discount.
