Ukraine will be able to maintain domestic supplies of natural gas and ensure the transit of Russian exports to Europe for at least several months despite Moscow’s move Monday to cut off shipments to Ukraine in a dispute over prices and other contract terms, officials said. “The Ukrainian side has prepared for this eventuality and we are ensuring reliable transit as well as supplies to domestic consumers,” Yuriy Prodan, Ukraine’s minister of energy and coal, told a cabinet meeting in Kiev, the Interfax news agency reported. Andriy Koboliv, head of state gas company NAK Naftogaz told the same session that, “We have time to resolve this issue at least until December.” Transit volumes to Gazprom’s European customers are flowing normally at 185 million cubic meters a day, he said. The officials noted that Ukraine’s inventories of gas in storage–now nearly 14 billion cubic meters–and imports from […]