Gazprom prepares to stop gas transit through Ukraine in 2025 - Reuters

The russian company Gazprom has prepared to stop natural gas transit through Ukraine.

This is stated in the company's plan for 2025, Reuters reported, citing its own sources.

According to the source familiar with Gazprom's plans, which have not yet been approved by top management, russia's base scenario is that gas transit through Ukraine will be stopped next year.

The source said that russian gas exports to the so-called "far abroad" - this is how Gazprom calls Turkey and Europe, excluding the countries of the former USSR - will be reduced by a fifth in 2025 due to the cessation of transit through Ukraine.

The agency notes that russian gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine are already relatively small.

In 2023, russia will supply about 15 billion cubic meters of gas through Ukraine, which will be only 8% of the peak volume of russian gas supplies to Europe via various routes in 2018-2019.

The Soviet-era Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline brings gas from Siberia through the city of Sudzha, which is currently under the control of the Ukrainian military, in russia's Kursk Oblast. It then travels through Ukraine to Slovakia.

In 2023, about 14.65 billion cubic meters of gas will be supplied through Sudzha, or about half of russian natural gas exports to Europe. Gas consumption in the EU in 2023 decreased to 295 billion cubic meters.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, in October this year, media outlets wrote that Ukraine had offered Azerbaijan and Slovakia alternative gas supply schemes through its territory from the beginning of 2025.

Recall, in early November it became known that Slovakia had agreed to supply gas from Azerbaijan in the event of a stoppage of transit through Ukraine.