UNIAN: Ukraine, EU to start trilateral talks with Russia on gas transit

By UNIAN.

Published May 25, 2018 at 5:26 pm

A compressor station of Ukraine's Naftogaz national oil and gas company near the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Ukraine has completed the process of separating its gas production company from its gas distribution network. Naftogaz and the transmission system operator will now be separate entities working independently of one another. Unbundling the gas system was a long-await reform critical to Ukraine’s greater integration with the European Union.

Photo by AFP

Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman says Ukraine and representatives of the European Commission have agreed to start trilateral negotiations with Russia on transit of Russia’s gas to EU states through the territory of Ukraine.

“Ukraine and the EU have agreed to start trilateral talks with the Russian Federation on gas transit to Europe. Ukraine’s position in these negotiations will be firm and responsible,” he tweeted following a meeting with Vice President of the European Commission on Energy Union Maros Sefcovic on May 25.