Gas pipeline MOSCOW, Jan 3 Russia is not obliged to supply all gas to Europe via Ukraine, said RIA Novosti Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Pankin. «If the goal is only to pump through Ukraine, then we are not obliged. Contracts are being fulfilled, even with an excess of 8-10%,» the diplomat said. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that Kiev was in favor of extending contract for the transit of gas from the Russian Federation after 2024. According to a five-year transit contract signed by Russia and Ukraine at the end of December 2019, Gazprom guaranteed the pumping of 65 billion cubic meters of gas in 2020 and 40 billion cubic meters each. gas through Ukraine and after 2024 based on the economic feasibility and technical condition of the Ukrainian GTS. At the same time, he indicated that the volumes of transit would have to correspond to the new volumes of purchases of Russian gas by companies from the EU countries under new contracts. 
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