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Ukraine will increase its gas imports Monday

The national gas transmission operator announced that Ukraine will increase its natural gas imports from 22 million cubic meters (mcm), which was the level on Sunday, to nearly 24 mcm by Monday.

In recent weeks, Ukraine has imported about 22 mcm per day of gas. The country must store at least 13 billion cubic meters of gas underground for winter heating.

Operator data indicated that Ukraine will increase its gas imports to Poland from 7,7 mcm Sunday, up to 10,4 mcm Monday. The country will also import gas in Hungary and Slovakia.

Since Russian missile attacks this year, the domestic gas production in Ukraine has been severely reduced.

In recent weeks, despite the efforts of U.S. president Donald Trump to resolve the conflict, Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure for gas import and production.

Rustem Umerov, a senior Ukrainian official in charge of security, announced on Monday that the top military and security officials will meet this week to talk about the energy sector.

Umerov told Telegram that the focus was on gas, fuel, and electricity supplies. He also stressed the importance of implementing relevant agreements with partners and ensuring critical infrastructure is ready. (Reporting and editing by David Goodman, Joe Bavier, and Pavel Polityuk)

(source: Reuters)