EU is ready to give up Russian gas - the European Commissioner for Energy

In mid -August, European gas storage facilities were filled by 90%, the European Commissioner for Energy Simson said. The EU does not need to look for ways to continue trade with Russian Gazprom. The European Union is ready to completely cease Russian gas transit in the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS) after the contract was completed in December 2024. According to Interfax-Ukraine, the European Commissioner for Energy Simson said in Brussels.

She noted that there was no need to look for ways to continue trade with Russian Gazprom, as the EU has found alternative supply routes. At the same time, Member States or their companies, which still buy gas from Russia, have actually received two additional years. Simon also reported that the share of Russian gas in the import of EU decreased from 45% to 18%, while the proportion of "blue fuel" obtained from Norway and the United States increased.

In addition, she said, from August 2022 to May 2024 in the EU reduced gas demand by 138 billion cubic meters. Already on August 19, the EU countries reached 90% of the winter gas storage target, significantly ahead of the last time in November 1, said Simson. We will remind, from January 1, 2025 the oil pipeline "Friendship" is stopped, through which Russian oil was received by Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary. Focus also wrote that oil supplies from Russia to China fell by 7. 4% and reached 1.