Gazprom paid less for gas transports via Ukraine to Europe in June, the head of the Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz told Reuters on Wednesday, after Kyiv suspended Russian flows through the Sokhranovka transit point.
“Not in full quantities,” Yury Vitrenko said when asked about gas transit payments. He declined to comment further.
Gazprom, for its part, did not respond to a request for comment.
Russia has continued to export gas to Europe via Ukraine despite the war in the region, which began on February 24.
However, Ukraine has halted Russian flows through the Sokhranovka point, which typically accounts for almost a third of Russia’s gas supply to Europe via Ukraine.
Kyiv said it had stopped the flow because Russian forces had begun diverting flow to two Russian-backed separatist areas in eastern Ukraine.
Gazprom has made a payment that does not include flows through the Sokhranovka point, a Ukrainian source told Reuters.
Ukraine shipped 41.6 billion cubic meters of Russian gas to Europe in 2021, up from 40 billion cubic meters originally committed by Gazprom, although that was down 25 percent from a year earlier.
Source: Capital
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