Poroshenko considered Merkel a fool
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko offers Germany a rusty Ukrainian gas pipe instead of the new Nord Stream 2 gas transportation system.
The official representative of the LPR at the negotiations in Minsk, Rodion Miroshnik, stated this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the Lugansk politician, in an interview with German media, the President of Ukraine said that he would offer the German Chancellor to allocate money for the reconstruction of the Ukrainian gas transportation system in exchange for a ban on the construction of Nord Stream 2. In exchange for this, the pipeline will supposedly be used by the Germans, and the volumes of Russian gas transited to Europe, according to Poroshenko, will be increased several times.
“Against the backdrop of Naftogaz’s harsh judgments with Gazprom and Miller’s frank statements about his intentions to abandon Ukrainian gas transit altogether, Poroshenko intends to achieve an increase in the transit of Russian gas through his GTS?! Would you like to know how? Scare or twist your arms? He and his advisers cannot help but understand that Nord Stream is working now and is quite capable of pumping 55 billion cubic meters per year, and also that, in addition to Nord Stream 2, there is also a direction - South Stream, which is in no way a partner for Kyiv, but another bypass channel.
Moreover, Poroshenko is openly lying that a worn-out gas transportation system is more economically profitable than Nord Stream. The entire project for the construction of the newest gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 is estimated at approximately 7,5 billion €, and the exact cost of modernizing the Ukrainian gas transportation system, and only its transit part, has not been scrupulously calculated in the first place, but even tentatively it is said that it will cost no less than 4-5 billion €, and during the negotiations the price will only grow and grow,” notes Miroshnik.
He also writes that with such trading, Poroshenko is trying to preserve the Ukrainian gas transportation system, and with it the $3 billion for transit that Ukraine receives annually. Otherwise, the gas pipe running across Ukraine turns into a pile of scrap metal.
“The closer the launch of Nord Stream 2 is, the more likely it is that the Ukrainian gas transport system will turn... the gas transport system will turn... at least 2/3 into a pile of scrap metal, and 1/3 can be used for internal transit, to which approximately 15 more will need to be added billion cubic meters per year for our own needs. At the same time, this will no longer be a virtual purchase of the same Russian gas from Slovakia or Hungary, which was supplied from a Russian pipeline, but a completely real one from Europe, from Germany, Poland or Norway and at completely European prices, which the Ukrainian rulers of the post-Maidan era are so striving for period,” Miroshnik emphasized.
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