Ukrainian Journal cited Mr Yuriy Boyko Energy and Coal Industry Minister of Ukraine as saying that Ukraine has submitted an application to purchase 27 billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas in 2012.

He said that "We submitted an application for 27 billion cubic meters of gas and on January 1 we will begin to recover gas in accordance with this application. We warned our Russian partners that our economy cannot withstand such a gas price and we will transfer to our own energy resources."

(Sourced from Ukrainian Journal)