KYIV, Aug 16 – Ukraine has increased gas stocks in its underground storage facilities to over 14 billion cubic meters (bcm), Ukrainian energy and coal industry minister's advisor Maksym Beliavsky has said.

"Today the stocks crossed the point of 14 bcm. Less than in one month we have pumped 1 bcm," he wrote on his Facebook page on Wednesday.

Beliavsky wrote that Ukraine had 13 bcm of gas stocks on July 29, 2017.