Beijing - Kyiv will start "stealing" gas from the transit pipeline to Europe in fall, so gas supplies should be diversified, Russian presidential administration head Sergei Ivanov said.
“We know from our experience that, when fall and winter come and Ukraine will lack gas, they [Kyiv] will start, excuse the banal word, stealing it,” Ivanov said on Wednesday, July 9 at a meeting with students studying the Russian language in the Russian language center of the Beijing university of foreign languages.
“So energy supplies should be diversified,” Ivanov said.
Interests of Russia and China match, Ivanov said.
“In general, pragmatism and economy determine everything now. Here interests of Russia and China match. So we go eagerly for very serious and grand projects [gas contract]. First, complete political trust exists, when you are certain in partner – he will not deceive you, not like with Ukraine – when you know one will not steal anything from you, that everything is transparent there and open. And second, purely economic interest. This is equally beneficial for China and Russia,” Ivanov said.
