Russian gas Resumed pumping to Europe via Ukraine after a two-week suspension

Russian company Gazprom on the morning of January 20 resumed again to pump gas to Europe via Ukrainian territory, after a two-week break because of fundamental differences with Kiev, which has refused to pass through the network of pipelines to extract concessions from Moscow over the price of imported and exported gas .

The head of “Gazprom” Alexei Miller, informed Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during their meeting in Moscow on Tuesday that the company had started this morning to pump gas to Europe via the Ukrainian territory, the status of the pumping Sudja southwest Russia on the border with Ukraine.

 
He stressed that there is no legal or technical obstacles from both parties to resume pumping gas at full capacity, adding that the two sides agreed to adopt a European price of gas contracts to Europe transit through Ukraine and contracts for the supply to Ukraine until 2019.

 Miller added that Ukraine will receive Russian gas in the first quarter of this year, 20% discount from the price, any price of $ 360 per thousand cubic meters of Russian gas to the source.

It also will maintain tariffs by the passage of gas through the territory of Ukraine at the level of 2008.