Ukraine has reduced natural gas imports by 24.7 percent year-on-year in January-September of 2018 due to a high reserve of gas stocks, local media reported Tuesday.
According to reports, in the first nine months of this year, Ukraine purchased some 8.1 billion cubic meters of gas from abroad, of which about 62 percent came from Slovakia and the rest from Hungary and Poland.
Gas supplies from Russia to Ukraine have been suspended since November 2015, as the two countries failed to reach an agreement on pricing.
Ukraine has ended the previous heating season, which lasted from mid-October 2017 to mid-April 2018, with a reserve of gas stocks of about 8 billion cubic meters.
Last year, the country consumed 32.2 billion cubic meters of gas, of which 43.6 percent were imported from abroad.
Editor:Yaling
