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Lithuanian president promises to help Ukraine block the NordStream-2 pipeline
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, in the light of Brussels' preparations for negotiations with Moscow, has promised to help Ukraine block the initiatives to expand the NordStream gas pipeline, reports BNS.
Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic states have declared that the NordStream 2 project will strengthen the EU's dependence on Gazprom gas. The pipeline will also reduce the importance of Ukraine as a transit country, which would strike a blow to the Ukrainian economy.
Grybauskaite …
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Poroshenko: Ukraine will reduce amount of Russian-supplied nuclear fuel to 45%
In 2017 Ukraine will reduce the amount of nuclear fuel supplied from the Russian Federation to 45%. This was stated by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during his visit to Tripoli TPP, RBC-Ukraine reports.
"In 2017, [our supplies of nuclear fuel from Russia] will be 45%. We will receive the rest from our other partners, including from the American company Westinghouse, which will increase nuclear safety," Poroshenko said.
He also noted that the supply of nuclear fuel from Russia in 2016 …
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The transit of Russian gas through Ukraine has risen to a 5-year record high
Ukrtransgaz, the operator of the Ukrainian gas transport system, stated that from January to May 2017, Gazprom increased the transit of gas through Ukraine to 38.26 billion cubic meters.
This is the highest recorded volume of transported gas over the past 5 years; it exceeds the average transit volume for January-May during 2013-2016 by almost 9 billion cubic meters. Other Russian gas route volumes remained stable.
Gazprom is able to cover the growth and fluctuations in demand for Russian gas …
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Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs: Kyiv is ready for a visa regime with Russia
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin, stated that the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is ready to implement a visa regime with the Russian Federation if Ukraine’s administration adopts such a measure.
“I believe that even the introduction of a visa regime to control those who arrive from Russia is not enough for us. We have to introduce biometric passports for this, but then also control those who come,” said Klimkin.
According to the Minister, almost three million …
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Naftogaz refused to negotiate with Gazprom in Moscow
National Joint Stock Company Naftogaz of Ukraine refused to negotiate with Gazprom in Moscow; a decision noted in the company's response to the invitation of Alexander Medvedev, Gazprom Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee.
Yesterday, Medvedev said that Gazprom was ready to discuss a new transit contract because the current one expires in 2019, so he invited Naftogaz to come to Moscow.
Naftogaz believes that the territory of the Russian Federation is not a place for negotiations. "This …