Ukraine Rejects Russian Gas Transit Offer
Ukraine’s President, Petro Poroshenko speaks during a joint press conference with German Chancellor after talks about fragile truce on April 10, 2018 in Berlin. Credit: Odd ANDERSEN / AFP
Ukraine on Wednesday rejected a natural gas transit proposal by Russian energy giant Gazprom as an unacceptable and unprofitable proposition for Kiev.
Gazprom on Tuesday had said it could continue pumping reduced volumes of gas to western and central Europe through an existing Ukrainian trunk pipeline.
The suggestion came after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said a deal for the Nord Stream 2 project Gazprom has been pushing was impossible “without clarity about …read more
Source: Channels Television
