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Gas transit system
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FT: Ukraine’s gas storage helps Europe avoid energy crisis
Ukraine's gigantic gas reserves that were built during the Soviet Union to ensure the Kremlin's gas monopoly on Europe are now serving the opposite goal: helping Europe get off the Kremlin's gas needle.
Over 40 European energy firms turn to Ukrainian facilities to store gas for winter
The companies transport their gas to Ukraine amid almost full European facilities and competitive prices.
US, EU support Ukraine’s energy security, condemn Russia’s weaponization of energy
On 7 February, the ninth meeting of the US-EU Energy Council concluded with the release of a joint…
Triple disconnection: how Russia seeks to destabilize Ukraine’s gas, electricity, and coal markets
[editorial] Russia has halted coal and electricity imports to Ukraine starting from 1 November, along with critically limiting…
Hungary to continue blocking Ukraine’s NATO membership talks
Gergely Gulyás said it on 29 September at a government briefing, commenting on Ukrainian objections to the Hungarian-Russian…
How Ukraine can still defeat Nord Stream 2
Mykhailo Gonchar, President at Center for Global Studies “Strategy XXI,” provides eight steps Ukraine and the West should…
Two keys to defeating Nord Stream 2 lie in Poland
Poland and Ukraine vow to oppose Nord Stream 2 After the text of the deal was published on…
After Nord Stream-2: how Ukraine can protect its gas transit
Whether or not the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline will be completed is no longer a relevant question. The…
Mitigating the Nord Stream 2 impact on Ukraine
Read also: FAQ: Everything you wanted to know about Nord Stream 2 but were afraid to ask (2018)…
Ukraine teams up with Qatar in the gas sector
On April 5, Ukraine’s acting minister of energy, Yuriy Vitrenko, and his Qatari counterpart, Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, signed…
Can the vessel Akademik Cherskiy finish Nord Stream 2 pipeline construction?
At the beginning of October 2020, the Akademik Cherskiy—the only Russian pipe-laying ship capable of completing the construction…
Russia pushes to complete Nord Stream 2 challenging US sanctions
While the United States struggles with the coronavirus pandemic, Russia has deployed two pipe-laying vessels to the Baltic…
Portnikov: The break in Putin’s pipe
According to the organizers of the commissioning ceremony of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline, the participation of Vladimir…
Portnikov: Who in Ukraine is being bribed by Putin and Gazprom?
Even if literally the next day after the press release about reaching an agreement between Russia and Ukraine…
Ukraine’s Russian gas transit to the EU may end in 2020, depends on Nordstream-2
Read our 2018 FAQ: Russia’s March-2018 gas war attempt against Ukraine, explained What is Naftogaz and why it…
Portnikov: Why Berlin saves Putin’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline
The German tabloid Bild informed its readers about the decision by the Bundestag’s ruling coalition to change the…
Moscow hopes to ‘Belarusianize’ Ukraine by dangling possibility of lower gas prices, Portnikov says
In January 1992, Moscow told Estonia that henceforth, the Baltic nation would have to pay Russia world prices…
A single methane ‘bubble’ explosion from global warming could cut Russia off from 89% of its natural gas
Eighty-nine percent of Russia’s natural gas production comes from the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District in the Russian Far North…
Is Russia planning “a new Donbas” in the Balkans?
A few weeks ago the Associated Press published a widely syndicated article about a Russian ‘spy base’ located…
Putin’s plans to destroy Ukraine’s gas transit system
Putin’s main objective is the destruction of the Ukrainian gas transit system as such. If he achieves it,…