Ukraine halted Russian gas supplies to European customers through its pipeline network, nearly three years into Moscow’s all-out invasion.
The movement after the transition has expired during the last 2024 hours and the continents are occupying themselves to sink in temperatures that could hasten the drain on the gas reserves.
Ukraine’s energy minister, Herman Halushchenko, confirmed on Wednesday morning that Kyiv had stopped the transit “in the interests of national security” after Russia He refused to change the state of war.
“It’s a historic event,” he said in an update on the Telegram app. “Russia is losing markets and will have economic losses. Europe has already decided to depend on Russian gas, and [this] It is similar to what Ukraine has done today.
Gas prices have risen in the last four months in anticipation of the transition and the expectation of plummeting temperatures Europe this winter
Once there was Russia containing the largest amount of gas but it has lost almost all its EU customers since the war started, so it has customers across central Europe turned to the USsupplies of Norway and Cathar.
At a summit in Brussels last month, the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, vowed that Kyiv would not allow Moscow to pass “additional billions … in our blood, the lives of our citizens.” He, however, briefly held that the possibility of continuing the gas supply was open if Russian payments were withheld until the war ended.
Russia’s Gazprom He said in a statement on Wednesday that he “does not have the technical and legal capacity” to send gas through Ukraine, due to Kyiv’s refusal to extend the deal.
The pipeline was established when Ukraine and Russia were both part of the Soviet Union.
Even as Russian forces and tanks moved into Ukraine in 2022, Russian gas kept flowing through the network to Europe under a five-year deal that allowed Gazprom to earn money from gas production while Ukraine collected transit fees.
Ukraine may meet its gas demand after a break in weather conditions based on normal fossil fuel production and storage, but the International Energy Agency said a colder-than-average winter could increase Ukraine’s gas supply. import from EU
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The forecast of a cold break after this week is already shaping up to be one of the most tested European gas markets in recent years, after a period in which reserves have been burned at the fastest rate since the energy crisis began.