A disadvantage of pumping gas transit through Ukraine will not, said Thursday the head of Gazprom Alexey Miller.
about it informs news Agency. In September, after bilateral meetings of Russia and the EC in Vienna, the head of Gazprom said that the Company will not enter into a new agreement with Ukraine on the transit pumping gas " unacceptable conditions ".
September 10, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk was indignant with plans to build a new Russian gas pipeline "Nord stream ? 2" bypassing Ukraine, saying that Kiev will lose $ 2 billion of income from pumping gas transit. Analysts have called these statements by the Ukrainian bureaucrat hypocritical, because Kiev had forced the Russian Federation to build bypass pipelines. At the end of June the President of Russia Vladimir Putin ordered to hold a dialogue with Ukraine on the extension of the transit of Russian gas after 2019. The head of Gazprom Alexey Miller has informed that has declared that the holding will never sign a contract for gas transit on conditions unacceptable to him. On the 9th of June, Medvedev stated that Gazprom will not extend the contract on gas transit through Ukraine Under any circumstances. In April the head of Ministry of energy of Russia Alexander Novak said that the Russian Federation is likely to abandon the gas transit through Ukraine after 2019.

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