Rada Deputy Dmitry Razumkov. File photoMOSCOW, Jul 22Ukraine should start stealing Russian gas from transit pipelines passing through its territory, MP and ex-Speaker of the Rada, former head of the ruling Servant party, said in an op-ed for Ukrayinska Pravda people» Dmitry Razumkov. He admitted that Kyiv must fulfill its transit obligations to its partners, but proposed to solve Ukraine's energy problems by violating the rights of the Russian side. «The surplus of Russian gas must be confiscated by law and pumped into our storage facilities. the situation is that every day we pump millions of cubic meters of Russian gas and do not provide our own storage facilities with the necessary reserves,» Razumkov wrote. He added that the Ukrainian authorities, together with Naftogaz, should develop a strategic plan for the development of the industry for this.
The Foreign Ministry called the conditions for extending gas transit and through Ukraine
