MOSCOW, February 18 Ukraine receives money from Gazprom for the transit of Russian gas, says that Russia is an aggressor, and cashes the money, it is for it “they don’t smell,” said Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“One line of the gas pipeline runs through Ukraine. But there is another one. The Ukrainian side closed it — not us, they closed it. But what is the point of closing it? They get us money for transit, no matter how strange it may sound. The aggressor is an aggressor, but the money doesn’t smell. They cash out the money for transit. That’s all. Few people talk about this either. Do they get money from Gazprom? They do,» — Putin said in an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin, the video was posted on his Telegram channel.