KIEV, Aug. 23 ??“ Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko expects the price of imported natural gas to grow next year but not significantly.

"We don't expect a drastic increase in the prices, and there won't be [such a rise], as we have mechanisms and arguments??¦ I believe that the level of prices next year would remain reasonable for our consumers," he said in an interview with a Ukrainian television channel, Interfax-Ukraine reported.