Kiev will stop the supply of Russian oil and gas to the European Union at the end of the year. Then the current contract for transit through Ukrainian territory will expire. The contract will not be renewed, Mykhailo Podolyak, the adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky, said today in an interview with the Ukrainian television channel Novini.Live, DPA reported, quoted by BTA.
The current contract expires at the end of the year, and while the agreement cannot be unilaterally canceled, “there is no doubt that everything will end on January 1, 2025,” Podoliak said.
Kiev is ready to transport gas from the countries of Central Asia or Azerbaijan to Europe, but not from Russia, as it is extremely important for Ukraine to deprive Russia of its sources of income, DPA points out.
Ukrainian representatives have repeatedly claimed that Kiev has no plans to renew the gas transit contract with Russia.
Earlier in the week, President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that Ukraine would not continue the agreement on the transit of Russian gas, but was ready to consider requests from European companies.
Despite the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukrainians complied with the terms of the treaty and continued to transport Russian oil and gas – in part at the insistence of their European neighbors, particularly Hungary.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijártó, who arrived in St. Petersburg today, announced on his Facebook profile that he met with the head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller. The two discussed gas supplies to Hungary, TASS reported.
“Hungary’s energy security cannot be ensured without Russian gas. This is not a matter of politics, but of physics and mathematics,” wrote Szijjártó.
The Hungarian leadership is satisfied with cooperation with Russia in the energy sector despite criticism from other European countries, he added. “In just a month, on October 1, a new gas year and a new heating season will begin. Our responsibility is clear: to provide heating for Hungarian homes,” said Budapest’s first diplomat.
Hungary still gets more than half of its gas needs from Russia. In October 2022, an agreement was reached between Hungary’s MVM (MVM) and Gazprom to increase supplies on the southern route through Turkey, and gas transportation through Ukraine began to decline
In 2022, 4.8 billion cubic meters of gas will be delivered to Hungary through “Turkish Stream” and its continuation through Bulgaria and Serbia, TASS recalls.
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