KIEV, Aug. 16 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny said it only plans to pay Gazprom for the natural gas it orders and receives and not for the gas volumes that Gazprom claims to supply to the territory outside Kiev's control in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which may be used to write off losses.

"Gazprom has billed Ukraine for supply of 1.2 billion cubic meters of gas in the first half of the year. Apparently, the Gazprom management has found the ideal method for writing off losses. After all, any figure for supplies can be written in, if the accepting side has no control over it," the state-owned company said on its Facebook blog.