Maria Knyazeva. The European Union will not be able to replace Russian gas transiting Ukraine with gas from other sources, if Russia will refuse from Ukrainian transit route, said in an interview Last news the head of the Secretariat of Energy of the brotherhood Janez lifters. The energy community is an International organisation that aims to expand the rules of the internal Energy market of the European Union to other countries, such as South-East Europe. The Secretariat is one of the main governance structures of the organization. In contrast from the others, he works nonstop. The highest decision-making body is the Council of Ministers, which meets once a year. before the Minister of energy of Russia Alexander Novak said that the Russian Federation does not plan to renew the contract for gas transit through the territory of Ukraine after 2019. "At the moment these possibilities are not sufficiently. I don't think the situation will change in the next few years, even before the end of 2019, " said kopacz to the question, will have the opportunity for the EU to replace Russian gas supplies from other sources (including LNG) or through a more intensive application of other routes, if Gazprom to suspend gas transit through Ukraine. A new twist on that old theme was designated on February 19." Naftogaz of Ukraine "has stopped gas supplies in the Donbass, explaining that "critical damage" pipelines." Gazprom has taken the decision problem, using canned gas metering station - and in just a couple of hours, the Ukrainian side said suddenly animated the pipe and resumed gas supply to the region. on a subsequent day of the event continued to evolve, but the situation does not become clearer. So, Naftogaz says that resumed gas supply in the region. Commissioners of Donbass gas comes specifically from Gazprom via the southern border with the Russian Federation (GIS "Platovo" and "Prokhorovka" )." Gazprom argues that the flow of gas through Platovo " and "Prokhorovka" agreed with the Ukrainian side. Read more in the article ""