“I am pleased to inform the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine that last week the operator of gas transit systems in Slovakia temporarily doubled gas transit to Ukraine.

We are ready to analyze the possibility of commercial viability of such a project in the future,” Korchok said during a joint press conference with the foreign ministers of Ukraine, the Czech Republic and Austria in Kiev.

In early February, European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson said that in recent weeks the EU has seen a reduction in the flow of Russian gas through the Ukrainian and Belarusian routes.

In "Gazprom" in mid-December, they said that the reserves in underground gas storage facilities in Ukraine had dropped almost to the level of the beginning of injection.