MOSCOW, Feb. 21 - Ukraine will pay an average of $280 per thousand cubic meters of gas in 2011, a Gazprom representative told reporters.

The price of gas for Ukraine is $264 this quarter and it will rise to $275 in Q2 2011, said Anatoly Podmyshalsky, head of the Russian gas giant's department for CIS countries.

Gazprom will pay $2.7 billion-$2.75 billion in fees for gas transit across Ukraine, he said.

Podmyshalsky said during a roundtable that Gazprom planned to supply around 40 billion cubic meters of gas to Ukraine in 2011, up 9.7% from 36.463 bcm in 2010.

He said Gazprom paid Ukraine $1.2 billion for gas transit in 2009 and $2.6 billion in 2010.