How does someone write an article like this and fail to mention that Russia and Ukraine just signed a five year gas transit deal two weeks ago?
Agenda journalism.
Ukrainian gas transit was never endangered by Russia. For Russia it is a route and bandwidth. The more transit the more revenue. The problem was the Ukrainian side which tried to use transit monopoly for superprofit extorting transit fees. With more routes bypassing Ukraine they have lesser leverage and transit fees decrease to reasonable levels.
With current euro policies on coal and nuclear Europe would buy as much gas as it might be delivered to them.