“These actions are clearly not aimed at improving relationships and building them between partners. These are some absurd lawsuits that do not create a good basis for negotiating for the long term, ”RIA Novosti quoted Novak as saying.

He noted that “we need to return to the topic of settlement on the basis of the“ zero ”version of all issues related to litigation.”

On November 2, Naftogaz Ukrainy’s executive director, Yuriy Vitrenko, announced that the company had filed a $ 12 billion defense and counterclaim claim with Gazprom with the Stockholm arbitration tribunal.