Ukraine has said it will suspend the flow of gas passing through its territory through a transit point that it says transports nearly a third of the fuel transported from Russia to Europe, and has blamed Moscow for the move. Saying it will move the streams elsewhere.
Ukraine remains a major transit route for Russian gas to Europe even after the invasion of Moscow.
Jetsu, which operates Ukraine's gas system, said it would halt shipments via the Sukhranivka route from Wednesday, declaring force majeure, a provision that takes effect when a company is exposed to Something out of her control.
But Gazprom, which has a monopoly on Russian gas exports via pipelines, has said it is technologically impossible to divert all volumes to the Sudga connection point, further to the west, as I suggested a jutsu.
Jetsu CEO Sergey Makogon told Reuters that Russian occupation forces have begun transporting gas through Ukraine and sending it to two Moscow-backed separatist regions in the east of the country. He did not prove what he said.
The company said that it could not work at the gas compressor station in Novopskov due to the occupation forces' interference in the technical operations, adding that it could temporarily transfer the affected quantities of gas to a connection point. Sudga located in the territory controlled by Ukraine.
Russian forces and separatist fighters had occupied the Novobskov gas compressor station in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine since Moscow launched what it called a special military operation in February.
Jetsu said that the Novobskov station is the first pressure station in the Ukrainian gas transportation system in the Luhansk region and a transit route for about 32.6 million cubic meters of gas per day, or a third of the Russian gas that It is transported via pipes to Europe, passing through Ukraine.
It added that in order to fully fulfill our transit obligations to European partners, it would temporarily transfer unavailable power to the Sudja connection point.
Gazprom said it had received a notification from Ukraine that it would stop transporting gas to Europe via the Sukhranivka interconnection line from today.
The Russian company said it did not see any evidence of force majeure or obstacles to continuing as before. Gazprom added that it fulfills all its obligations to gas buyers in Europe.
