Today Kyiv has stopped all Russian gas flowing through Ukraine heading to countries such as Slovakia and Hungary.
The Ministry of Energy of Ukraine confirmed on Wednesday that their “international partners” who are reliant on Russia gas will now no longer be receiving it via Ukraine.
The Ministry said, “At 07:00, in the interests of national security, the transportation of Russian natural gas through Ukraine was stopped. Ukraine has informed its international partners about this in accordance with the established procedure.”
Energy Minister Herman Haluschenko said, “We have stopped the transit of Russian gas, this is a historic event. Russia is losing markets, and it will suffer financial losses.
“Europe has already decided to abandon Russian gas. And the European Repower EU initiative provides exactly what Ukraine has done today.”
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The Russian company Gazprom said on Wednesday that Moscow was forced to stop gas transiting through Ukraine at 8:00 am on 1 January 2025.
The said in a statement, “As Ukraine repeatedly and clearly refused to extend these agreements, Gazprom was deprived of the technical and legal ability to supply gas for transit through Ukraine from January 1, 2025. The supply of Russian gas for its transportation through Ukraine stopped at 8:00 a.m. Moscow time.”
In December 2024 the Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico warned Kyiv there will be “serious conflict” if the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine.
Fico warned, “If Zelenskyy does not let our gas through, a serious conflict could arise. Why should it only go from us there? Why can’t there be some kind of solidarity towards us?”
Fico has arrived in Moscow on 23 December and met Vladimir Putin to discuss Russian gas transiting through Ukraine to Slovakia.
Fico said it is “unacceptable” that President Volodymyr Zelensky is threatening the production of electricity for their nuclear power plants in Slovakia.
Fico, who is pro-Putin, held talks with the Russian dictator in the Kremlin which is “a response” to Zelensky as he is refusing to allow Russian gas to transit through Ukraine.
Zelensky said, “We will not engage in extending the transit of Russian gas. We will not give (Russia) the opportunity to earn additional billions on our blood.”
Hungary has also joined the war on Russian gas and are “trying to trick” Kyiv into allowing the supplies transit through Ukraine.
The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is also pro-Putin, is suggesting that once they have bought the gas it is no longer Russian, but Hungarian so it must allowed to pass through the pipelines in Ukraine.
Reuters reports that Orban said, “We are now trying the trick … that what if the gas, by the time it enters the territory of Ukraine, would no longer be Russian but would be already in the ownership of the buyers.
So the gas that enters Ukraine would no longer be Russian gas but it would be Hungarian gas.
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