KIEV, May 12 – Ukraine in the first week of May continued actively pumping natural gas into its underground storage facilities, boosting them by almost 800 million cubic meters.

According to the European Storage System Operators (GSE), as of April 30, a total of 8.523 billion cubic meters of gas was stored in underground storage facilities of public joint-stock company Ukrtransgaz and as of May 7, 2014, gas stocks grew by 8.8% or 752 million cubic meters, to 9.275 billion cubic meters.