If there is no contract, there will be no supplies.

Arbitration is a last resort, but if Ukraine is ready to do this we are ready too.

If there isn't a (new) contract, there won't be deliveries.

We have always supported the idea of parity management and we stick to it now. Moreover, we see the possibility of inviting a third, foreign partner into the consortium and of redistributing stakes in it accordingly, say, among Ukraine, Russia and Germany, because Germany was brain-father of this proposal.

Ukraine has wasted time in these talks, and now there can be no talk of US$160. The market situation has changed, and it's continuing to change.

The talks with Ukraine have dragged on for more than nine months and, regrettably, no progress has been reached.