“Nobody offered us such options,” he wrote.
Thus, he responded to a user’s comment about whether the option of extending the transit contract for a year or signing “completely new with new conditions” is being considered.
Earlier, the candidate for the post of European Commissioner for Energy in the new European Commission (EC), Kadri Simson, said that the result of tripartite consultations on gas between Russia, Ukraine and the EU should be the signing of an agreement before the end of 2019.
On October 2, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the country was ready to extend the contract with Ukraine for pumping gas for a year if a new agreement was not signed.
More details in the material RT.