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"Gazprom has already started officially informing the countries bordering Ukraine or depend on our transit that this transit will not happen from the beginning of 2020," he said in an interview with RBC Ukraine ( cited by RBC). The sources of this information, Mr. Kobolev did not mention.
Earlier, Naftogaz had declared that it would not accept the conditions set by Gazprom for the transit of gas after 2019, and qualified the agreement unacceptable. Naftogaz is currently involved in a new arbitration dispute with Gazprom. The Ukrainian company is asking to recover about $ 10 billion from the Russians to compensate for the possible lack of transit next year.
On January 21, a regular meeting of the EU, Russia and Ukraine on gas was held in Brussels. As a result of its results, the parties have decided to defer negotiations on the further transit of Russian gas by Ukraine after 2019 until May, after the election of the Ukrainian President.
Recall that the Ukrainian authorities have indeed expressed a vote of no confidence to Andrei Kobolev. The government will hold a competition for the post of entrepreneur, although, according to the rules of its leader, a supervisory board is proposed, which has already been expressed for the candidacy of Mr. Kobolev.
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