KIEV, Aug. 25 – Prices of energy in Ukraine could fall in eight or nine months, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk said.

"We will start feeling the change of energy prices downwards in eight or nine months," the minister said on television station 112 TV Ukraina.

He said that from spring 2017 one can expect a gradual decline in energy prices.

The minister said that today Ukraine does not depend on Russia in the energy sector.