Ukraine struggles to find dollars to pay gas debts

摘要

Kiev, Ukraine-Ukraine's state-owned oil and gas company, Naftogaz Ukrayiny, has been unable to buy US dollars on the foreign exchange markets and is seeking help from the country's central bank to avoid defaulting on debts for Russian gas supplies, the company's Chairman Oleh Dubyna said November 26. Naftogaz needs to begin clearing $2.4 billion of debt for gas supplies earlier this year following a threat from Gazprom to suspend supplies to Ukraine