President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy held talks with the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. He proposed to reduce the cost of gas transit through the territory of Ukraine and provide its strategic reserve storage facilities. Mr Zelenskiy also called Nord Stream 2 a security threat to Europe. The parties also discussed the idea of creating a regional platform to strengthen energy security.
Ursula von der Leyen said that she expressed support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. “The EU and Ukraine will continue cooperation in the energy sector: on the supply and storage of gas, renewable sources and energy efficiency,” she wrote in Twitter… The talks also discussed the migration crisis on the border of Belarus and the EU. According to the head of the EC, Minsk is carrying out a “hybrid attack”.
Kiev notes that Volodymyr Zelensky has presented a number of proposals to prevent the energy crisis in Europe. “The President of Ukraine stressed that our state is ready to reduce the cost of gas transit on its territory and provide its own underground storage facilities for storing strategic fuel reserves,” Kiev said in a statement.
“The President of Ukraine once again stressed that the Nord Stream 2 project is primarily a threat to security for the whole of Europe,” the statement on the website of the Ukrainian president says.
Ukraine’s Deputy Energy Minister Maxim Nemchinov said last week that Moscow is doing everything to make Kiev feel the energy crisis even more. In his opinion, Ukraine is in a state of “energy war” with Russia.
Earlier, Gazprom announced that it had fulfilled its obligations to supply gas to Ukraine and began work on pumping gas into underground storage facilities in Europe. The head of the company, Oleksiy Miller, said that obligations to Ukraine would be exceeded this year.
On the suspension of certification of “Nord Stream-2” – in the material of “Kommersant” “Problematic Deutschka” Gazprom “.
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