Gas is being sold at an exorbitant price: Popenko compared the cost of gas and tariffs for the population.

The cost of gas extraction in Ukraine is approximately 2500 hryvnias per thousand cubic meters. However, the population pays 7980 hryvnias, while heating and communal enterprises pay 7500 hryvnias.

Energy expert Oleg Popenko stated this in an interview with Yuriy Romanenko.

According to him, even taking into account all expenses, the cost of Ukrainian gas does not exceed 60 dollars per thousand cubic meters.

'In 2019, a member of the supervisory board of Naftogaz of Ukraine from the Netherlands confirmed that the cost of extracting Ukrainian gas is about a hryvnia per cubic meter. If you add all exploration expenses and other processes, we get a maximum of 60 dollars per thousand cubic meters,' noted the expert.

Popenko noted that with such cost and current tariffs, the profit exceeds 200%.

'We sell gas to heating and communal enterprises for 7500 hryvnias, while the cost is 2500 hryvnias including all corruption components. From this model, we get 200% profit. Is this not enough for the development of the industry?' asks the expert.

At the same time, for other consumers, Naftogaz sells gas at market price - about 16-17 thousand hryvnias per thousand cubic meters, which means up to 500% profit.

According to Popenko, under such conditions, there is no economic justification for further increasing gas tariffs for the population.

We remind that Ukrainians were shown gas tariffs in 2025.