Gas supplies to Ukraine from Europe may be subject to legal prosecution by Russia, said in the program «Vesti on Saturday» Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak, noting that it is for the main reverse flow from the EU Ukraine – Slovak.
According to him, now the question lawyers are studying.
«But things really changed in this sense. Was built and built capacity, increased capacity of the pipeline “Voyany-Uzhgorod”. And gas is actually today partly comes from Slovakia. And we understand that but if it is a virtual reverse, virtual reverse, of course, he is, in our opinion, is illegal – said Alexander Novak.
He said that if it turns out that the reverse is a natural gas, the have carried out the physical volumes of gas supplies in the opposite direction, then it is, of course, corresponds to the current legislation, existing contracts.
Ukraine receives gas from Europe in Slovakia, as well as Poland and Hungary.
Earlier reports , that “Gazprom” has lost $ 6.5 billion on a failed attempt to stop reverse gas to Ukraine.
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