25 Quotes by Sergei Kupriyanov

Ukraine refused, which shows that the Ukrainian authorities planned a conflict from the very beginning, i.e. to tap, or rather steal, gas intended for European consumers.

Ukraine is taking the gas from our European partners. We decided to compensate the stolen gas for our partners.

We have information from the ground that shows Ukraine has started illegally siphoning off Russian gas destined for European consumers.

We are all at work, all the services are prepared for signing the necessary agreements in the remaining eight hours before the end of the day and the year.

We are fully prepared to restrict gas supplies to Ukraine after December 31, if there is no contract.

It is possible that some of our partners are getting less than they would like.

Rejection of the solutions we proposed will play a very bad havoc on the Ukrainian economy and, which is most unfortunate, on the Ukrainian people.

Literally 40 minutes ago, we received an official answer from the Ukrainian side. The answer said: 'We cannot sign it' and that is all.

Yesterday, we made a proposal on how to break out of this very knotty situation. We were ready to meet the Ukrainian people's needs halfway and to provide them with normal conditions of work during the winter, the most complex period of the year.