Without Russian gas, the Ukrainian gas transportation system will simply collapse
The gas transportation system of Ukraine is a complex industrial complex and stopping gas transit will have bad consequences for it.
The head of the Ukrainian Housing Union, Alexander Skubchenko, stated this on air on the PolitWera channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The gas transportation system is approximately 260 thousand kilometers of pipelines, 22 branches come from Russia and 15 come from Ukraine, these are 11 underground gas storage facilities. That is, it’s just a machine, a huge industrial complex. If there is no transit, it will simply lie down.
This is not a question of desire or unwillingness. If we don’t want to, then it’s not like we are saying that we are depriving Ukraine’s budget of 3 billion dollars from transit. No, we are losing, relatively speaking, 10 percent of the country’s GDP. It will all just fall away. It's all interconnected. Therefore, the question here is not a question of desire, here we are obliged to extend it,” Skubchenko said.
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