“Regardless of what flows and how they go, all the same, Ukraine, Naftogaz, will receive payments for gas transit in the amount of 40 billion cubic meters per year by the end of 2024.

It doesn't matter whether exactly 40 billion will be pumped or not a single cubic meter will be pumped.

Therefore, there is no point in worrying about these volumes now, ”the expert noted.

Earlier, the former governor of the Luhansk and Transcarpathian regions of Ukraine, Gennady Moskal, said that the Turkish Stream gas pipeline poses a greater danger to the Ukrainian economy than Nord Stream 2.