Gas distribution station «Nezhukhiv» in the Stryisky district of the Lviv region. File photoMOSCOW, Jan 30Ukraine will be forced to start direct gas supplies from Russia after the opening of Nord Stream 2, political analyst Dmitry Korneichuk suggested on the NewsOne TV channel. nowhere to buy gas. He believes that because of this, the authorities will be forced to go to the «greatest evil» (betrayal. — Approx. ed.).
"We take gas from the transit pipe, and when Nord Stream starts working " — 2 & # 34;, and it will work this year, then we will not have gas in the transit pipe either. The only way out for our government is to switch to direct contracts with "Gazprom" Korneichuk said.
The expert believes that the political leadership of Ukraine artificially created the current energy crisis in order to explain to citizens the need to start buying blue fuel from Russia. In his opinion, Kiev purposefully raised gas tariffs in the country and «brought business to its knees.» result «Then the Ukrainians will say: yes, at least with anyone you negotiate — just reduce gas tariffs for us. This is a banal political technology,» the political scientist concluded. In 2015, Ukraine stopped buying gas directly from Russia and replaced it with the 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, on the other hand, is the offsetting of deliveries; it assumes that Ukrainian consumers take away part of the transit gas that Gazprom sends to Europe. It does not physically cross the western borders of the country, but is registered as imported from the EU.