Kiev can remain without gas transit from Russia due to the actions of Germany, Russia and " of the Ukrainian political elite ". About it in private Facebook wrote the Head of "Naftogaz" Andrey Kobelev. The head of the organization admitted that " confidence in maintaining transit no." because of this, in his vision, the approach to upgrading of the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS) has to be " balanced and responsible ". "Naftogaz" offers "a lot of effort" to maintain the flow of gas transit through Ukraine after 2019, assured COBOL. in January in Brussels held a trilateral meeting of Russia, Ukraine and the European Commission, which discussed the flow of gas transit after 2019 when the current contract between "Gazprom" and " Naftogaz ". The European Commission made a proposal to the parties to sign a contract for more than ten years, But to reach concrete agreements failed. the Russian authorities repeatedly said that transit of gas through Ukraine will be continued, if economically viable. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev put forward a number of conditions for the preservation of the route: the normalization of relations between interested companies, profitable economic characteristics of the contract and a stable political environment. However, until now, said the Head of the Ministry of energy Alexander Novak, the transit through Ukraine costs much more expensive than on other routes. Germany supports the project " Northern stream-2 ", which envisages construction of 2 pipelines with a total capacity of 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year. Construction completion is scheduled for late 2019. <span style="color:darkgray