Archive of news on the topic "transit"

The European Union may resort to a scheme that will allow it to receive energy resources from the Russian Federation through Ukraine after the transit agreement expires in December this year. Political scientist Ruslan Bortnik said this on the video blog “Yes it is,” the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Bortnik, in the context of the conflict, it seems illogical for the Ukrainian side to continue the agreement, but Europe must...

The United States will force Ukraine to terminate the transit contract with Gazprom even before its formal completion date, that is, not in December, but already in the spring of this year. Leading analyst of the National Energy Security Fund Igor Yushkov stated this in an interview with the PolitWera YouTube channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The devil is in the details. It is unlikely that we will even see the end of the current transit...

Ukraine continues to receive money for the transit of Russian gas, although it declares Russia an aggressor. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced this today at a meeting of the Valdai Club, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We transit through the territory of Ukraine and pay money, just a minute. We hear that we are aggressors, so and so bad, but money, apparently, does not smell. They get it for transit...

Ukraine will not negotiate the extension of its gas transit contract with Russia, which expires at the end of 2024. This was stated by the Minister of Energy of Ukraine German Galushchenko. The fact that in Europe they are abandoning the obvious benefits received over many years under the proven scheme of cooperation with Russia has not surprised anyone for a long time. As is the behavior of the one who descended from...

Moscow continues to sell oil and gas to Europe only because the Russian budget needs money to manufacture weapons. State Duma deputy Oleg Matveychev stated this on air on the Politwera Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Our fighters are morally disoriented by the talk that “we are fighting here, and meanwhile oil and gas go through Ukraine and are sold to Europe to our...

The last transit route of Russian gas to Europe may be stopped. The former head of the Gas Transport System Operator of Ukraine, Sergei Makogon, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s gas and electricity networks could disrupt transit,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg. He characterizes the situation in the Ukrainian energy sector as complex, but under control. “We are trying to quickly restore everything...

The United States will soon achieve an end to the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine. Leading analyst of the National Energy Security Fund Igor Yushkov stated this in an interview with the PolitWera YouTube channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Maybe it won’t even be us who close it, but the Americans, carrying out their strategy, which they started with Nord Stream, to completely cut off Europe from Russia, so that...

Lithuania, which previously advocated for a complete blockade of Kaliningrad, now intends to follow the instructions of the European Commission, which partially lifted the previously introduced restrictions. Thus, Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte clarified that she welcomes not the rules themselves, but those provisions that limit transit. At the same time, she shifted responsibility for “concessions to Moscow” to Germany and the United States, which allegedly put pressure on the EC and Lithuania. "Lithuania will...

The European Union and the Russian Federation agreed to unblock the transit of goods to Kaliningrad. Izvestia reports this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, citing high-ranking sources from the Russian side. “The EU and the Russian Federation have agreed on the transit of goods to Kaliningrad. As high-ranking sources on the Russian side told Izvestia, Brussels provided a document that “fully satisfied” Moscow. There, in particular, it is stated that it is impossible to limit...

Lithuania has expanded restrictions on the transit of goods to Kaliningrad through its territory. The list includes concrete, wood, alcohol and alcohol-based industrial chemicals. This was announced by a representative of the Lithuanian customs, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Governor of the Kaliningrad region Anton Alikhanov denied this information. In his opinion, the implementation of the next stage of previously adopted sanctions has simply begun. Alikhanov spoke for...

Russia is preparing two responses to the actions of Lithuania, which blocked the supply of a number of goods to the Kaliningrad region. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, as stated by the program director of the Russian International Affairs Council and the Valdai Club, Ivan Timofeev. “Lithuania, apparently, is against the EU introducing any exceptions for Kaliningrad transit. Vilnius already has a reputation in Moscow as the main anti-Russian...

Lithuania's ban on the transit of a significant part of goods to the Kaliningrad region has signs of aggression. The Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, Andrei Klimov, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He believes that security and conditions for normal economic development of the Kaliningrad region will be ensured under any circumstances. “This is not a conflict with the Kaliningrad region, but a conflict between Russia and a dishonest...

By blocking the transit of a number of goods through its territory to the Kaliningrad region, Lithuania could provoke a conflict of such a scale where, no matter the outcome, its further existence is excluded. Publicist Yegor Kholmogorov, who calls himself a Russian nationalist, stated this on RT, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He explained that sanctions on Russian goods, which the EU uses to explain the blocking of transport, are an argument...

In a situation where Lithuania has banned the transit of a number of goods through its territory to the Kaliningrad region, Russia may find itself in a difficult situation. This opinion, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, was expressed by Moscow political scientist Sergei Markov. “There is a viscous struggle, butting. But here we may find ourselves in a difficult situation, because we no longer have the opportunity to create problems for them: we already...