President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev have coordinated their action in face of the Russian embargo on the Ukrainian goods transit in a Tuesday phone conversation.
The Committee of State Revenues at the Kazakhstan Ministry of Finance seeks to negotiate with the Federal Customs Service of Russia on a free transit of Ukrainian goods, the press service of the Kazakhstan Ministry of Finance reports.
The Ukrainian Antimonopoly Committee has determined preliminarily, following an antitrust investigation, that Russia's Gazprom occupies a monopolistic position on the Ukrainian gas transportation services market and regularly violated the terms and conditions of its contract with Naftogaz Ukrainy in 2009-2015.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko spoke with EU leaders in Brussels about the possible involvement of European companies in the modernization and management of the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS).
The European Commission is not concerned about gas supplies to Ukraine from Russia, European Commissioner for Energy Miguel Arias Canete said on Thursday in Brussels.
Russia's state-controlled natural-gas giant Gazprom has stopped deliveries of gas to Ukraine because of Kyiv's alleged failure to make the required prepayments, Radio Liberty reports.
The European Union in its report noted the importance of Ukraine as a country that imports the Russian gas; a relevant report by the European Commission on the state of creation of the EU Energy Union was released on Wednesday, November 17, Ukrinform reports.
The EU is convinced that all the parties should be interested in Ukraine as the important country for Russian gas transit. This is stated in the draft report of the European Commission at the progress towards the Energy Union, according to Ukrinform.