Ukraine is not planning to ship natural gas to territories in Donbas that its government does not control in the 2015-2016 heating period, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said.

“Having 16.6 billion cubic meters of gas last year [in the underground gas storage facilities before the 2014-2015 heating season], we pumped 2 billion cubic meters to the uncontrolled territories in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which we don’t expect to do this year,” Demchyshyn said at a roundtable conference in Kyiv on July 2.