Ukraine offered Gazprom a 50% discount on gas transit to Europe

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Ukraine has offered Gazprom a 50% discount on gas transit to Europe in excess of the volumes stipulated in the current contract. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Bloomberg about this.

Zelensky stressed that Kiev allegedly offers such discounts to everyone who claims to transit gas through the country. “Ukraine guarantees special anti-crisis conditions for transit in cases of supplies in excess of the volumes stipulated in the contract,” he added, noting that Europe will suffer “huge” losses due to the energy crisis if such a contract is not concluded in the near future.

Under the terms of the current contract with Gazprom, 40 billion cubic meters of raw materials are pumped through the gas transmission system of Ukraine per year. Earlier on Friday, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov said that Ukraine is ready to offer Europe additional capacity for the transit of Russian gas in the amount of at least 55 billion cubic meters. m on “special terms”.

The gas price on spot sites in Europe has been steadily above € 1,000 per thousand cubic meters since mid-September, at a maximum price level was approaching € 2,000. weather, growing global demand for electricity against the backdrop of economic recovery from coronavirus restrictions and an insufficient level of occupancy of European underground storage facilities, gas reserves in which fell to a minimum over the past 10 years – 75% versus 94% a year earlier.

Earlier, the European Parliament accused Gazprom of being involved in the rise in prices, which allegedly seeks to force Europe to give permission for the operation of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline. In Russia, the accusations were denied and reminded of the fulfillment of all contractual obligations for the supply of fuel.

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