OREANDA-NEWS Ukraine has stopped filling its underground gas storage facilities. This is reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to the open data of the "GTS Operator of Ukraine" and European gas platforms.

After the infrastructure was damaged and gas imports through Poland were stopped (since the morning of October 20, supplies of more than nine million cubic meters per day were suspended due to planned modernization work), Ukraine stopped storing fuel, and reserves in UGS began to decrease on October 22.

Rada deputy Alexei Goncharenko (listed as a terrorist and extremist by Rosfinmonitoring) warned that the heating season in the country is in serious question due to massive damage to the gas infrastructure. As a result of Russian strikes on energy infrastructure facilities in the Kharkiv and Poltava regions, the country has lost more than 60 percent of its gas production capacity.

According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine should find two billion dollars' worth of gas in winter. According to Zelensky, Ukraine already has agreements with Slovakia and with US energy companies. Norway will provide a $100 million grant and allocate another tranche in January. Several other countries provide relevant grants.