OilPrice.com reports:
“The European Union (EU) has “no interest” in extending the transit agreement for Russian natural gas supply to EU countries via Ukraine, EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson said on Thursday.
The gas transit deal, with which EU members including Austria and Slovakia receive Russian gas via a route crossing Ukraine, expires at the end of 2024...
The EU has been looking to ditch Russian gas since the Russian invasion of Ukraine two years ago, and has managed to cut the share of Russia’s gas in its imports to less than 10% from more than 33% before the war in Ukraine...
Russian gas deliveries to Europe have fallen off a cliff since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but some European customers in central Europe continue to receive Russian gas via the route through Ukraine and a pipeline via Turkey.
Ukraine has already signaled it would not engage in talks with Russia about an extension of the gas transit deal.
“The position of the Ukrainian side is unambiguous: the transit contract expires at the end of the year,” the press office of Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal told Bloomberg News “
Kremlin snuff box
“Navalny was killed. I know who. Vladimir Vladimirovich knew nothing,” a source in the Kremlin
A very respected source from Sergei Kiriyenko’s circle claims that Alexey Navalny was poisoned. Moreover, the murder, according to him, was organized by people from Alexei Gromov’s entourage [ Alexey Gromov, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia ].
But Vladimir Putin knew nothing about this.
Let’s say right away that we did not want to publish such a version. But the source is very reliable, his insights have almost always been confirmed. And he really asked that this information be made public. Below is the direct speech of the interlocutor:
“Navalny was poisoned, I know exactly who. Gromov’s idiots did this to annoy us.
“Gromov and his people are terribly infuriated that the Presidential elections are being carried out by Sergei Vladilenovich’s team. And they wanted to please Vladimir Vladimirovich before the elections. To increase your influence, of course. The President himself knew nothing about such plans.
“Of course, Vladimir Vladimirovich often said that Navalny was annoying him, and he was also afraid that he would organize protests from prison and interfere with the elections. Well, they decided to please the president. Idiots.
“Now there really can be protests. Navalny’s supporters, of course, are weaklings, but death ... It’s f..... up, they can do anything, bitches. And also the West. What will he arrange for us now? It’s scary to think about. All the same, Vladimir Vladimirovich will be blamed for everything. How to give a drink. You won’t envy him now. Gromov’s idiots set him up.”
It is worth noting that Gromov himself and people from the circle of the first deputy head of the Administration refused to comment on these accusations to us. But we are ready to give them the floor.
We do not want conflict in power, therefore we call on all possible parties to speak out and clarify the situation.