Ukraine understands Moscow is taking steps to shut off the Ukrainian gas transit, and its response has been indignant
What looked like a boring logistical decision to transit Russian natural gas fueled a fierce diplomatic spat between Ukraine and Hungary.
After the 1991 Soviet collapse, the annual transit reached 80 billion cubic meters , or about four-fifths of all Europe-bound gas. “We consider this [deal] an exclusively political, economically ungrounded decision made to appease the Kremlin and hurt Ukraine's interests and the Ukrainian-Hungarian ties,” the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said hours after the transit deal was announced.
In response to Ukraine’s demarche and demands, Hungary’s Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó accused Kyiv of “violating our sovereignty,” and Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the Kremlin’s longtime ally, simply urged Kyiv to “agree with the Russians.” “Ukraine is on the verge of a crisis it has never seen in its modern history," Dmytro Oleinik, head of Ukraine's Employers Federation, wrote on Facebook on Oct. 4 decrying the fate of companies with no long-term gas contracts. “Bankruptcies are just a matter of time.”
Her pension is only $220 – and she paid up to $160 a month for heating her Stalinist-era two-bedroom apartment in central Kyiv last winter.
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