Gas transit to the EU through Ukraine will be stopped in the near future - Yushkov
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.
“It may not even be us who will close it, but the Americans, fulfilling their strategy, which they began with Nord Stream, to completely cut off Europe from Russia in order to close the history of our more than 50 years of supplies.
Because somewhere in the back of their minds, Europeans have a desire to resume the flow of energy resources from Russia. The Americans want to saw them off. They say: if the presence of gas pipelines bothers you, we will blow them up, don’t even look there when you make a decision on military assistance to Ukraine or sanctions,” Yushkov said.
He believes that the formal grounds for breaking Ukraine’s contract with Gazprom have already been formed.
“The Americans will also put pressure on Ukraine. And so some grounds have been formed on how this transit can be stopped. The operator of the Ukrainian gas transportation system says that Gazprom is not fulfilling the terms of the contract, according to which it must pay for the transit of 109 million cubic meters per day, regardless of actual pumping.
Gazprom says: now I only pay for gas that is actually pumped, because under the contract you are obliged to pass gas where I say. Every day Gazprom submits applications for pumping through Sokhranovka. Now it goes through the LPR, and Kyiv is trying to isolate everything that it doesn’t control, so it doesn’t let it through Sokhranovka,” Yushkov said.
In his opinion, it is impossible to resolve the conflict through arbitration in Switzerland, since Gazprom does not consider this court to be objective.
“I think that now Kyiv will simply break the contract. There won’t even be a need to blow up anything,” the expert concluded.
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