Volodymyr Trykolych and Oleksiy Kucherenko

Naftohaz Ukrayiny deputy chairman of board Volodymyr Trykolych, second to the left, and Housing and Communal Economy Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Kucherenko, to the left, at a session for issues of payments for natural gas consumed in Ukraine since the beginning of 2009, Kyiv, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. In the course of the session, Trykolych claimed that gas-supplying companies in Ukrainian regions sabotage the process of opening clearing accounts for natural gas payments. “38 companies opened accounts in the Savings Bank of Ukraine, the rest is sabotaging the process”, Volodymyr Trykolych stressed. He emphasized that these enterprises began to work following the principle “let’s take what we need and let’s pay what we want”, after gas cut-offs due to non-payments were banned in 2009. Photo by Oleksander Prokopenko/POOL/UNIAN