KYIV, Jan 30 – The money paid by Russia's Gazprom at the end of 2019 in the amount of $2.9 billion to execute the award of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce are staying on the accounts of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, and their further distribution will be decided during the discussion with the government, Naftogaz Ukrayiny Executive Board Chairman Andriy Kobolev has said.

"We are waiting for a discussion with the government regarding the strategy of Naftogaz, and after that it will be decided how this money can be optimally spent," he said on the Ukraine 24 television channel.