KIEV, Dec. 17 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny has proposed that industrial producers agree on the purchase of gas from alternative traders operating on the European market, the Russian market and other countries, according to, CEO of Naftogaz Ukrayiny.

"Today we address you [industrial producers] with a proposal to take part in the settling of the issue of bringing traders to the Ukrainian market jointly with you. We all have an interest in this," Naftogaz CEO Yevhen Bakulin Bakulin said at an enlarged meeting of the presidium of the Federation of Employers of Ukraine initiated by Naftogaz Ukrayiny on Monday in Kiev.