Vladimir Zelensky. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 8Vladimir Zelensky said that Ukraine, amid preparations for the new heating season, will refuse to export gas and coal, according to the Ukrainian edition of Strana.ua. next heating season. This decision was made at a meeting with the government… We discussed the issue of purchasing the required amount of gas and coal. We will not sell gas and coal abroad,» Zelensky's publication quotes. The head of Ukrainian Naftogaz, Yuriy Vitrenko, said earlier that a combination of various measures can help Europe stop buying gas from Russia, in particular, electricity imports from Ukraine can replace up to 10 billion cubic meters of Russian gas. The EU countries have already successively introduced six packages of sanctions against Russia because of the situation in Ukraine. In particular, the sixth package introduces a gradual embargo on oil imports from Russia. The ban applies only to deliveries by sea, and the oil coming through the Druzhba pipeline is not limited. By the end of the year, the EU expects to abandon almost 90% of Russian oil imports. The European Union is not yet affected, although periodically such calls are heard in the West. As Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said at the end of May, in terms of security of energy supply with gas, everything is different than with oil, which can be replaced much more easily if the Russian resource is abandoned. According to the IEA, Europe imported about 155 billion cubic meters of gas from Russia in 2021 , including LNG. Of these, Gazprom's pipeline gas accounted for 140 billion cubic meters. Russian gas accounted for 45% of gas imports in Europe, and its share in the whole European market was 40%.
