Ukraine’s gas war chills Europe

[Taelon]

RT: News : The gas row that won?t go away

At the beginning of 2006, the sides had a similar disagreement over Ukraine’s failure to pay for gas it received from Russia. Gazprom responded by cutting supplies.

At the time, Russia’s state run gas giant also announced that Kiev was siphoning off gas intended for Western Europe.

After the row, the two sides took measures to prevent the same thing happening again.

“The situation is very different now, we have two separate contracts for transit and for delivery and they are not interlinked,” Gazprom spokesperson Sergey Kupriyanov said.

Gazprom says the current contract for the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine was agreed early in 2006, and will remain in force for two more years.

By the end of last year Ukraine was in debt again.

So maybe Eastern Europe people should ask their new NATO "partners" with full reserve depots for giving them Gas&Oil against the winter cold

 

[Frankie]

We have enough reserves for a year or so, but the biguns did not anticipate complete stoppage with total loss of pressure in the pipes and did not obtain reverse turbines to push all the gas back to all the country. Niceties of half a century of planned economy.