KIEV, Oct. 2 – Ukrainian Ambassador to Russia Volodymyr Yelchenko has said he is confident that Ukraine will manage to persuade its Russian partners to reduce the price of natural gas.

"The Ukrainian side has consistently and convincingly defended its long-standing position on the need to review the existing price for Russian gas... We are mutually interdependent on many issues of bilateral cooperation, and we are sure that we can still convince our Russian partners to reduce the price for natural gas," he said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine.