Over the course of three months, the State Geology and Mineral Resources Service of Ukraine cannot find forms to reissue the special permits for UkrGasVydobuvannya.

Such bureaucratic "jokes" can cost Ukraine 28 billion hryvnia.

Will UkrGasVydobuvannya maintain its production levels in such a situation and who benefits from such collapse? – the Association's eecutive director, Roman Opimakh, responds the question.