“Here, since President Putin stated his attitude to this issue at a press conference in Budapest, nothing has changed,” RIA Novosti quoted the Kremlin representative as saying.
As Peskov noted, “Putin’s position is well known.”
Thus, the agency clarifies, he answered the question about the quality of negotiations with the Ukrainian side about gas transit and why rhetoric sounds that the suspension of gas transit is not ruled out.
On October 30, in Budapest, Putin announced Moscow’s readiness for “constructive work both in pumping gas through Ukraine and in delivering gas to Ukraine.”
At the same time, the president emphasized that Russia and Ukraine need to get rid of mutual claims on gas.
As noted in Kiev, Ukraine is ready for a possible cessation of transit of Russian gas, but the signing of a new agreement with Gazprom remains a priority.