March 3, 2018 (KyivPost) In
retaliation for coming up on the losing end of a Stockholm arbitration court
ruling that will cost Russia’s state-controlled Gazprom $2.56 billion, the
Kremlin indefinitely shut off natural gas supplies to Ukraine on March 1. Ukraine,
consequently, faces shortages for the rest of the winter. But, eventually, all
might work in Ukraine’s favor as energy experts expect the Russian energy
monopoly to eventually pay its Ukrainian counterpart, Naftogaz. Moreover,
Ukraine will try to win the public relations war by convincing the European
Union that Gazprom is an unreliable partner, and that the EU should stop the
Ukraine-bypass Nord Stream 2 pipeline under construction between Russia and
Germany under the Baltic Sea.
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