Former prime minister of Ukraine and leader of the Batkivshchyna party, Yulia Tymoshenko, called Kiev’s statements that the country buys gas from Europe as a “big deception”. The politician is sure that propaganda is working on this issue, and the gas, as it was, remains Russian. She shared her opinion on the air of the Nash TV channel on Friday, October 22nd.
“There is no European gas for Ukraine. When they announced to us in 2014 that Ukraine would consume European gas, let them show me where it is produced in Europe and where we can get it. I want to inform the country now, it was a big deception, there was no European gas, they made a fictitious pipe, but the gas was Russian, ”Tymoshenko said.
She noted that there is no gas in Ukraine and it has to be purchased at a high price. And this situation, she said, is caused by someone’s “stupidity.”
“Now it is necessary to take money from the budget, which would be better spent on health care and pensions, and to give to NJSC Naftogaz for something that someone bought in the summer. This is stupidity, ”she said.
Earlier on October 22, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Kiev was offering Gazprom a 50% discount on gas transit to Europe in excess of the 40 billion cubic meters established by the contract. m per day. According to him, this issue is important for the whole of Europe, and Ukraine would like to see European companies among its clients.
On this day, Ukraine offered the EU an additional transit of 55 billion cubic meters. m of gas. Also, the Kiev authorities promised to help Moldova with gas, where they declared a state of emergency (state of emergency) for a period of 30 days, from October 22 to November 20, due to the crisis in the energy sector.
For 2021, Gazprom has a long-term reservation of Ukrainian facilities in the amount of 40 billion cubic meters. m. This is 109 million cubic meters. m daily. On October 16, the chairman of the board of Naftogaz, Yuriy Vitrenko, said that the daily volumes of gas pumped through Ukraine had halved since the beginning of the year. Fuel transit was reduced to 80 million cubic meters. m per day. At the beginning of this year, the volume was 180 million cubic meters. m per day.
On October 18, Gazprom did not book additional transit capacity through Ukraine and bought out a third of the proposed transit capacity of the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline running through Poland. After this decision, the price of gas in Europe increased by 14% and reached $ 1281.9 per 1,000 cubic meters. m.
On October 13, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that the Russian Federation is ready to extend the contract for gas transit through Ukraine, but first it is necessary to understand the volumes of supplies. He also called nonsense statements that Moscow is building Nord Stream 2 in order to deprive Kiev of gas transit.
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