KYIV, Oct 29 - Ukraine's gas stocks continued to increase in recent days despite the start of the winter heating season, data from Ukrtransgaz show.

Gas stocks in underground storage increased to 17.053 billion cubic meters at the end of the day on October 27, 2018, up 2.3-fold from 7.435 bcm on April 8.

Relatively warm weather for late October combined with domestic gas production and imports made it possible to add 8 million cubic meters a day to the inventories, Ukrtransgaz said.