Gas distribution station MOSCOW, Jan 3 The transit of Russian gas through Ukraine to Slovakia is sharply reduced for the second day, fell by almost 30% on January 2, according to the data of the Slovak operator of the Eustream gas transmission system. million cubic meters (January 1) to 35.5 million cubic meters (January 2), a decrease of almost 30%. On December 31, the figure reached 83.8 million cubic meters, and on the first day of 2022 fell to the minimum value in two months, having decreased by almost 40% Transit of Russian gas to Slovakia in November fluctuated in the range of 42.7-94.5 million cubic meters per day, and in December — 69.1-90.2 million cubic meters. for two weeks does not reserve the capacity of the Yamal-Europe pipeline for gas transit through Poland to Germany. The pumping of Russian gas was consistently reduced for several days: the company in the first half of the month booked almost a third — 31.4 million cubic meters per day out of the available 89.1 million, from December 17 it began to reduce the volume of reservations, and from December 21 the pipeline switched to reverse mode ( reverse means that the original consumer, having acquired gas, supplies it in the opposite direction), from Germany to Poland. 
Checkmate » To Gazprom: Ukraine will stop the transit of Russian gas in winter Reverse deliveries through the extreme western point of the mainline in Germany — Malnow — to Poland with the beginning of a new gas day (at 6.00 local time, at 8.00 Moscow time) on January 1 more than quadrupled — from almost 120 thousand cubic meters per hour on the last day of the year up to 505-520 thousand cubic meters. On January 2, pumping from Germany to Poland fluctuated in the range of 567-568 thousand cubic meters per hour. The main routes for Russian gas supplies to Europe are the gas transmission system of Ukraine, Yamal-Europe and Nord Stream. 
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