“Gazprom struck our political elite several blows in the stomach, first by closing the reverse from Hungary (which was connected through a new connector to the Turkish Stream).
Then - by reducing the pumping of gas through the territory of Ukraine towards Slovakia, ”RIA Novosti Kushcha is quoted as saying.
According to him, "the saddest thing and what they prefer not to notice in Ukraine is that the current situation is, for the most part, an element of Europe's energy strategy."
Earlier, the head of the Ukrainian GTS Operator, Sergei Makogon, said that Gazprom at the beginning of 2022 reduced gas transit through Ukraine to 52.5 million cubic meters.
m per day with a booked daily volume of 109.6 million.
In 2021, 41.7 billion cubic meters of Russian gas were transported through the territory of Ukraine.