Part of a gas installation at a gas-pumping station on the gas pipeline in the Kyiv region. – Russian gas is not scheduled to flow via Ukraine to Europe on January 1, data from Ukraine’s gas pipeline operator showed on December 31, 2024
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Ukraine said on Wednesday (January 1, 2025) that the transit of Russian natural gas through its territory had been halted as of 7 a.m. local time (0500 GMT), citing “national security”.

The statement by Kyiv’s Energy Ministry comes amid the expiration of a five-year contract between Gazprom and Ukraine’s Naftogaz.

“We stopped the transit of Russian gas. This is a historic event,” it quoted energy minister German Galushchenko as saying.