KIEV, May 5 – The Regions Party has said a claim by Batkivschyna Party Leader and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko that her team agreed in 2009 with the Russian Federation to pay $228 per 1,000 cubic meters of gas is untrue.
"Yesterday, Tymoshenko again cynically lied to the public that she agreed to pay '$228 per 1,000 cubic meters of gas'. In reality, she signed a formula for the robbery of Ukraine: before the elections a preferential price of $228, [and] after the elections, $450 multiplied by a proportion of the average price of gas-oil and fuel oil over nine months of the previous year, and these prices directly depend on the price of oil, which has almost doubled. So the formula means regular increases of gas prices depending on the growth of the oil price," reads a statement by the press service of the Regions Party.
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