KIEV, June 15 – Yuriy Kasich, acting director at Ukrenergo, has said that Ukraine will not pay for Russian electricity supplies to the rebel-held areas of the country's Donbas region.

Russia was notified well beforehand about Ukraine's unpreparedness to pay for the net power flows between the two countries' energy grids across five power transmission lines in the rebel-held areas of Donbas, he said in an exclusive interview with Interfax.