KIEV, Jan. 18 - Ukraine since the beginning of the 2015/2016 heating season has depleted natural gas stocks in its underground gas storage facilities (UGS) by 27.8%, or 4.741 billion cubic meters.

According to Ukrtransgaz, as of October 29, 2015 some 17.064 billion cubic meters of gas were stored in the UGS, while on January 16, 2016 gas reserves in the underground has storage facilities amounted to 12.323 billion cubic meters, which is 20.6% more than on January 16, 2015.