It was only previous year that President Vladimir Putin said Turkey could become an energy hub for southern Europe and proposed to build Turkish Stream, a gas pipe under the Black Sea.
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Gazprom said it had halted gas deliveries to Ukraine because it had used up all the gas it had paid for.
“According to the current agreements with Gazprom, further volumes will be contracted and prepaid by Naftogaz as needed, depending on demand in Ukraine and taking into account terms available for Naftogaz in the European Union”, it said.
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk charged the Cabinet and the Ministry of Economic Development with providing a list of potential prohibited goods and services.
No new prepayment from Kiev was received as of Wednesday morning, nor did Naftogaz requested gas deliveries, Miller was quoted by RIA Novosti news agency as saying.
Ukraine will ban transit flights of Russian airlines through its airspace starting from Thursday, the country’s Infrastructure Ministry said Wednesday.
Under one accord which runs until March 2016, Kyiv commits to buy 2 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas from Gazprom, financed with Dollars 500 million provided by global financial institutions.
“Russia delivers coal to the Ukrainian energy sector”.
He also said that the Kremlin may halt coal supplies to Ukraine in retaliation for blowing up pylons that caused the interruption of gas supplies from Ukraine, which accounts for most of Crimea’s electricity. It comes as tensions simmer and Ukraine following the annexation a year ago as well as a separatist war that’s killed more than 8,000 individuals in Russian Federation and made parts of the industrial heartland.
“The bottom line is militarily, strategically they may want to draw a line and say this has gone too far, but it wouldn’t be wise”, said De Jong. In October, Kiev had withdrawn already Russian aircraft landing in the Ukraine.
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The chairman of the State Duma Committee for Energy, Ivan Grachyov, expects that Ukraine will steal the gas pumped into underground storage facilities to ensure stable supplies to Europe this winter.
