“Today we are completely separated from Russian gas. Nobody thought that we could do this, because we depended on Russia. We depended on 40%, and now only 7%,” he stressed.Europe was able to replace 155 billion cubic meters of Russian gas from other sources, although its cost has increased.
First merchant ship successfully crosses Ukrainian sea corridor, sidestepping Russia
On 16 August 2023, the first civilian cargo ship left the Ukrainian seaport of Odesa and, despite Russian threats, successfully reached the territorial waters of Bulgaria and then Romania using mostly Ukrainian territorial waters
