KIEV, September 20 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine"s...

"The agreement can be revised at any moment," Viktor Yushchenko told Bloomberg. "I don"t think an agreement based on such non-market principles added any stability to the issue of gas supplies to Europe."

He said the government is "responsible for that" and added that these had been "fatal mistakes" as Ukraine is paid less than any other European country for gas transit. He said this caused the country"s gas monopoly Naftogaz to run a deficit of almost $4 billion.

Yushchenko said that should gas transit tariffs be raised to the "lowest possible level European countries pay," Naftogaz would gain $2.5 billion.

Russia and Ukraine signed natural gas contracts in January, ending a dispute between the ex-Soviet allies that interrupted Russian gas supplies to the EU for two weeks earlier that month over a bitter pricing and debt row between Moscow and Kiev.

The contracts have been criticized by Yushchenko, but Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who plans to stand

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