Ukraine's gas reserves are sufficient to meet the needs of domestic consumers during the winter heating season, which ends in mid-April, the chairman of Ukraine's state-run energy company Naftogaz Andriy Kobolev said on Thursday.
"We have enough stocks. ... Everything is going according to the plan," Kobolev said in an interview with the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
Since the start of the heating season in mid-October 2018, Ukraine has used some 5 billion cubic meters out of its winter gas reserves of 17.2 billion cubic meters, Kobolev said.
In the previous cold season, from mid-October 2017 to mid-April 2018, Ukraine consumed over 9 billion cubic meters of gas from its underground storage facilities.
Last year, Ukraine's overall gas consumption stood at 28.5 billion cubic meters, of which 37.1 percent were imported from abroad.
Editor:Cherie
