Ukraine: agrees to transit gas from Azerbaijan to Europe after the end of the agreement with Gazprom

Ukraine has agreed to transit earthy state from Azerbaijan to Europe arsenic an interim measurement pursuing the expiration of its transit statement with Russia, though it expects that the quantities of state from Azerbaijan volition see quantities of Russian gas, the quality website Ukrainska Pravda wrote today.

Ukraine’s state transit statement with Russia’s Gazprom is owed to expire astatine the extremity of this twelvemonth and Kiev has said it does not privation to renew it amid the warfare betwixt the 2 countries.

However, immoderate cardinal European countries inactive trust connected Russian state that crosses Ukraine by pipeline – having secured an exemption from the European Union’s prohibition connected Russian state imports – and are keen to proceed to proviso it.

An Azeri authoritative said the EU and Kiev had asked Baku to facilitate talks with Russia, with a imaginable enactment for Azerbaijan to bargain Russian state for itself successful bid to escaped up immoderate of its ain state for export to the EU.

“We recognize that the EU needs clip to wholly wantonness Russian gas. And we are taking this measurement to facilitate this modulation for the EU,” writes Ukrainska Pravda, citing a root successful the Ukrainian government.

The aforesaid root added that Ukraine is acceptable to enactment this statement adjacent if immoderate volumes of Russian state whitethorn beryllium mixed with volumes of state from Azerbaijan.

Ukraine’s Energy Ministry declined to remark connected the matter.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev had said past week that helium was optimistic that determination would beryllium advancement successful talks to guarantee the travel of earthy state done Ukraine to immoderate European countries.