German Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking at the Ukrainian-German economic forum, expressed confidence that issues with the transit of energy resources through the territory of Ukraine will no longer occur.
"previously we had problems with transit through the territory of Ukraine, but they remained in the past ", - said Merkel, reports the news Agency.
The Chancellor also said that Ukraine needs strong economic ties with the European Union and with Russia." We wish that Ukraine did have good economic relations with the EU, but at the same time, and with Russia ", - said Merkel, RIA " Novosti ". Along with this, at the end of September the head of Gazprom Alexey Miller said that the next winter will have the opportunity to experience issues with transit in the European Union gas from Russia, as initialled gas Protocol Between Russia, Ukraine and the EC provides for the purchase of only 2 billion cubic meters of blue fuel, which is not enough in cold winter. At the same time, Miller said that the disadvantageous pumping gas transit through Ukraine will not. On 12 October, Russian gas deliveries to Ukraine were resumed after a three-month break, despite the fact that at the end of September, Naftogaz released a report which said that Ukraine in fact lost their critical dependence on gas supplies from Russia. However, a source close to the EU leadership, said that in winter Ukraine will need to purchase gas from Russia, because technically all the needs of the country in blue fuel does not have the ability to be covered by the supply of the reverse from EU countries.

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