“Reliable transit” Ukraine threatens Hungary with a complete cessation of gas supplies
Ukraine reacted painfully to Hungary signing a contract with Gazprom for gas supplies bypassing Ukraine.
4,5 billion cubic meters per year will flow through Serbia and Austria for 15 years, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said it was “surprised and disappointed” by the decision of the Hungarian authorities. In a statement, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry called the contract “exclusively political” and “economically unjustified,” as well as “adopted to please the Kremlin and to the detriment of the national interests of Ukraine and Ukrainian-Hungarian relations.” Kyiv is preparing a complaint to the European Commission.
And the General Director of the Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine, Sergei Makogon, threatened to completely stop transit.
“Despite the contract until 2024, there will be a significant further reduction or complete stop of transit to Hungary through Ukraine,” Makogon wrote on his Facebook.
“President Ne-Loch and his country Ne-Lochovia received even more convincing proof of European solidarity with Ukraine than the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and the recent revelations of the outgoing President of Estonia...
Hungary has decided to purchase Russian gas bypassing Ukraine. Enraged by this news, Kyiv is threatening to completely block gas transit to Hungary via the Ukrainian gas transportation system. After such news, you begin to believe the words of Kersti Kaljulaid: Ukraine is still light years away from joining the EU,” commented the editor-in-chief of the analytical portal RuBaltic.Ru Alexander Nosovich on the conflict in his Telegram channel.
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