Contract expires
Gas transit via Ukraine: Orban wants to play a trick
Hungary is in talks with Russia and Ukraine about the continuation of gas supplies via Ukraine. Although these are now delivered to Hungary via the Turkstream pipeline, the country does not want to give up the transport route via Ukraine, said Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Saturday.
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Transit contract expires
The gas pipeline through Ukraine is one of the last important transport routes for Russian natural gas to Europe. Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Austria in particular continue to receive a large proportion of their natural gas via this route. However, the transit contract between Russia and Ukraine expires at the end of the year. Ukraine has announced several times that it does not want to extend this contract due to the war between the two countries.
"We are now trying a trick ... what if the gas was no longer Russian before it reached the territory of Ukraine, but was already in the possession of the buyers," said Orban. Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico made a similar proposal.
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