End of the paradox: two years and ten months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky has now put an end to deliveries of Russian gas through Ukrainian pipelines to countries in the European Union (EU). ). As he had already announced, the President of Ukraine did not renew the Russian-Ukrainian transit agreement which expired on Tuesday December 31, 2024. No delivery of Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine is scheduled for Wednesday 1is January, confirmed on December 31, in the early evening, the Ukrainian manager of the GTSOU gas transport network. According to figures published on the latter’s website, the volumes scheduled for Wednesday are zero cubic meters and deliveries will stop early in the morning.
This five-year contract previously linked the Ukrainian public company Naftogaz to the producer Gazprom, of which the Russian state is the majority shareholder. Its non-renewal will be synonymous with a loss of income for the Kremlin but also for kyiv, to a lesser degree, and above all new energy tensions on the Old Continent.
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