Shmygal said there were no plans to resume gas transit from Russia

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said on Friday, January 10, that Kiev does not plan to sign any contracts to extend the transit of Russian gas through the country.

"An important element of energy sustainability remains the functioning of the Ukrainian GTS operating under zero transit conditions. We did not and do not plan to sign any contracts to extend the transit of Russian gas," he wrote in his Telegram channel after his speech in the Verkhovna Rada.

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On the eve of the Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fitzo threatened Kiev to stop humanitarian aid because of the decision to stop the transit of Russian gas through the territory of Ukraine. The politician noted that Bratislava, as a member of the European Union (EU), has the right of veto, which it can use to block some decisions taken in the association.

On 8 January, Hungarian Foreign and Foreign Economic Relations Minister Péter Szijjártó called unacceptable Ukraine's termination of the transit of Russian gas and crude oil. The minister drew attention to the fact that such a decision by Kiev contradicts its aspirations to join the EU. On the same day, Slovak MEP Monika Benova said that Ukraine's refusal to participate in these negotiations was a sign of weakness of the country's president.

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

On January 1, 2025, Gazprom announced the suspension of gas supplies through Ukraine. On the same day, Fitzo said that this would have drastic consequences for the EU, but not for Russia.