A bill on a complete ban on oil and gas transit from Russia has been submitted to the Duma

The European Solidarity party has registered on the website of the Verkhovna Rada a draft law that implies a complete ban on the transit of oil and gas from Russia. This was reported by Ukrainian MP Irina Gerashchenko on January 7.

"The relevant bills have been registered," she wrote in Telegram-channel.

Earlier in the day, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fitzo said that representatives of Ukraine will not attend the European Commission (EC) negotiations on gas transit, which will be held in Brussels on January 9.

There is no more gas transit through Ukraine. What the media say

At the end of August 2024, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose term of office expired on May 20 last year, said that the country would not extend the gas transit agreement with Russia, which expires at the end of 2024. Russian President Vladimir Putin later said that the country was not giving up gas transit through Ukrainian territory.

On January 1, 2025, Gazprom said it would suspend gas supplies through Ukraine. The next day, Fitzo noted that this would have drastic consequences for the European Union, but not for Russia.

At the same time, a spokesman for the EC said that the organization is ready to stop gas transit because the European gas infrastructure is flexible enough to supply gas of non-Russian origin to Central and Eastern Europe via alternative routes.

At the same time, Greek businessman and managing director of the industrial and energy company Metlen Energy & Metals Evangelos Mytilineos said on 7 January that Ukraine's refusal to stop Russian gas transit would cost the EU €100bn.