“The drama of the situation lies in the fact the lowest prices were in effect at the beginning of this year and Ukrainian partners stopped paying even at those prices,” Putin said at a session of the Security Council. “April 7 marked a yet another date for payments under the gas contract for March 2014 and they didn’t pay us a single dollar or ruble of the $ 540 million they were supposed to pay.”

“That’s an absolutely unacceptable situation,” he said.