“We are not enthusiastic about this option, but this is an element of compromise,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
He noted that Naftogaz acted as a buffer between the Russian company and Ukraine.
Russia and Ukraine in the evening of December 30 signed a package of agreements to continue gas transit through Ukraine.
Earlier it was reported that the new operator of the gas transmission system of Ukraine began the transit of Russian gas to Europe under the contract, which Moscow and Kiev agreed at the end of December 2019.