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Despite official denials and sanctions against Moscow, Ukraine continues purchasing Russian natural gas through European intermediaries, according to statements from Ukrainian officials. On April 22nd, Alexey Kucherenko, deputy chairman of Ukraine’s parliamentary energy committee, admitted that Kyiv is buying Russian gas delivered via the TurkStream pipeline to Hungary and Serbia, acknowledging that Ukraine allegedly “cannot track the origin of gas molecules” in Europe’s integrated energy market.
After refusing to renew the transit agreement for Russian gas through its territory in 2025, Ukraine cut off direct supplies, but yet still receives Russian gas through a loophole. The TurkStream pipeline, running under the Black Sea to Turkey and Southern Europe, remains a key conduit. Ukrainian traders purchase gas that, while nominally from EU suppliers, originates from Russia.
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Hungary and Serbia, both heavily reliant on Russian gas, resell surplus volumes to Ukraine. European traders markup prices, forcing Ukraine to pay more than if it bought directly from Russia. Price manipulation by European traders inflates costs for Ukraine.
While Ukrainian leaders publicly vow to cut all energy ties with Moscow, the reality is more complicated. Ukraine’s gas reserves are critically low (just 0.7 billion cubic meters as of mid-April), necessitating urgent imports before winter. Sanctions loopholes allow Russian gas to flow via third countries. There are no viable alternatives, while renewables and LNG imports remain insufficient.
Ukraine’s dependence on indirect Russian gas undermines its energy sovereignty and highlights Europe’s lingering reliance on Moscow’s supplies. With winter approaching and storage levels at historic lows, Kyiv faces a difficult choice: continue covert Russian gas purchases or risk energy shortages.
As the war drags on, this hidden energy trade reveals the limits of Ukraine’s economic decoupling from Russia, and the unintended consequences of Europe’s fragmented sanctions regime.
well since europe pays for it it does not matter how much it costs i guess. turkstream hm didnt they try to attack it a couple weeks ago?
make the ukrops pay through the nose, then bleed them through it. a fitting end.
european backdoor sounds like ukraine buy much fart gas from von der loon and cronies.
russia will soon no longer have a monopoly on gas, even if putleris is hypocritical to jolana. the qatari big boss will get angry and order the idf general:”commander ghassan alian establish a corridor.” “yes sir!”ghassan alian walks the hallway, leading the idf to victory over russia. two weeks later, ghassan alian passes through the corridor and all the muslims flee towards turkey.
they can’t even defeat a civilian force armed with light infantry weapons. they can kill lots of women and children though. they enjoy that apparently by all accounts.
us amerikunts inferior mean bitter…”the aamerikan mind and conscience is feminine”. geoffrey gorer
silly talk from man’s brain made of rock.
the artcile talks about turkstream as a key conduit. why is this key pipeline not on the map?
this is an outrage! ukraine should be buying “freedumb gas” from the jewsa at only 5 times the price!
this dousnt matter for ukraine because our leaders give them endless funds from our national budgets but it matters for europeans whos money is being leeched by their zog controlled governments and taxes that are jacked up and laundered in ukraine. soros will be very happy with what he achieved in ukraine at the expense of all of europe and ukranians. everything destroyed and him rubbing hands at our demise as every greedy happy merchant dous.
europeons are obedient sheep. what they’ve sown, may they soon reap.
the thief of kiev is talented and known for his back door, but especially his mouth. it’s like a maserati
he also bought himself a nice big yacht and a villa in egypt and he got the journalist who reported it a. ss. ssinated. thats how far freedom of press goes for the ukranian dictator jew he will go to any lenghts to silence those who speak out against him exposing his scheming and thieving of the national.budget for personal enrichment
your name is funny because moshe dayan was perhaps the biggest archeolical artifact thief in history. that kike stole everything during the wars in egypt and in palestine for profit and self enrichment. no one dared to hold him accountable because of his fake propagated hero status
yes , the identifier appears somewhat of a conundrum, bordering on facetious. ’tis strange.
through stealth and deception. . . tug tug tug tug tug tug tug 💦💦💦💦💦💦💦
dayan was an unconventional soldier, outspoken and didn’t suffer fools who were incompetent. he was there to do his job well, he did not steal or profit off of whatever the politicians running the government were doing . he did his duty, did not mistreat prisoners and acted in a moral, disciplined manner. he would never allow the corrupt behavior happening in the ranks of soldiers there today.
more like a fiat cinquecento
if two italian fascist mercs are driving in a cinquecento in a ukrainian fire zone and are hit by russian drones, does their car then become a duecento or if they’re just wounded, a trecento?
“encapsulated mothers are the conscience of all amerikans…the only purpose in life is to get enough money”. geoffrey gorer. “he is like a woman–he lies for the sake of lying”. emile zola…”amerikans have been liars and braggarts for 3 centuries”. daniel boorstin
nailed it ✅