Ukraine.

What goes on in Poland on the 9th of July.

Serhiy Oleksiyenko, acting president of Ukrtransgaz says that Ukraine could import up to 5 bcm of gas a year, but the obstacle are infrastructural limitations on the Polish territory.

Delaying Nord Stream 2 is not enough to ensure Ukraine’s stability. The Russians have already begun playing for its destabilization during and after the parliamentary elections. Warsaw should act in the face of the interregnum in Brussels, writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.

On 21 January another round of trilateral gas talks between Russia, Ukraine and the European Union was held in Brussels. This meeting mainly concerned the new Russian-Ukrainian transit contract; the transit contract currently in force between Gazprom and Naftogaz will expire as of 1 January 2020. During the meeting, European Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič submitted […]

What goes on in Poland on the 3rd of June.

The CEO of Naftogaz Andriy Kobolev met with the newly sworn President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zlensky.

Ukraine may soon bring LNG from the USA through Poland. It is not known whether it comes to additional deliveries from the entire portfolio or a dedicated package, as in December 2017 – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl.

Naftogaz filed a complaint to the European Commission against Gazprom for abuses of dominance in European gas markets. The main target of the complaint is Gazprom’s construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between Russia and Germany. Nord Stream 2 is the longest submarine gas pipeline in the world, at 1,230 kilometres. Gazprom owns and […]

Breaks in oil deliveries via the Druzhba pipeline to Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Germany are an opportunity to discuss the diversification of gas supplies. Polish refineries increase its import from other than eastern directions, thanks to what, PKN Orlen for example could work without deliveries through the Druzhba pipeline even […]

Even after a political rapprochement between Russia and NATO, Moscow saw the Alliance in terms of a hostile institution and expressed marginal interest in promoting greater cooperation within its structures. Endeavors to bring Russia and NATO closer, while deepening their mutual ties, were aimed at boosting the Kremlin’s influence on the Alliance’s activities – writes Director […]