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Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy Alexey Pushkov. Archival photo MOSCOW, 4 Jan. The theft of Russian gas will lead to the end of the transit of blue fuel through the territory of Ukraine, Senator Alexei Pushkov said in Telegram. On the eve of the former head of Naftogaz, Andrey Kobolev admitted that Kiev would be forced to steal Russian fuel from the pipe with insufficient fuel imports to cover A member of the Federation Council stressed that in this case, Russia will break the current agreement with the Ukrainian side. “An interesting forecast: Ukraine will have to steal Russian gas, predicted the ex-head of Naftogaz Kobolev, transit «, — said Pushkov. At the end of 2019, Russia and Ukraine signed a transit contract for five years. According to the document, Gazprom guarantees the pumping of 65 billion cubic meters of gas in the first year and 40 billion in the next four. In 2015, Ukraine stopped buying gas directly from Russia and replaced it with a so-called virtual reverse. Reverse means that the original consumer, having received ownership of the gas, supplies it in the opposite direction. The virtual reverse is the offset of supplies, which assumes that Ukrainian consumers take away part of the transit gas that Gazprom sends to Europe. Physically, it does not cross the western borders of the country, but is formalized as imported from the EU.