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Ukraine wants to extend the contract with Gazprom on gas transit for 15 years.

This was stated by Prime Minister Denis Shmygal in an interview with Radio Liberty.

“The contract is valid until 2024. In fact, it is. We want to extend it and are negotiating with our European partners. Because they also depend on the extension of this contract. For us, the ideal time is to extend these conditions for 15 years,” – said Shmigal.

He added that Ukraine has proposed to increase gas transit to the EU beyond the terms of the contract.

“We are ready to increase transit to another 55 million cubic meters. And we are ready to transit this surplus at a price twice lower than in the current contract. This once again confirms the ability of the Ukrainian GTS to transport and transit twice as much as contracted today. “, – the prime minister told.

He noted that Ukraine also offered European partners to use gas storage facilities to store gas purchased by them in Russia.

“As for the cold winter and Europe’s capacity, we also came up with a proposal. Our gas storage facilities have a volume of 33 billion cubic meters, we use, usually in the region of 20-24, the maximum volume was 26 billion cubic meters. That is, we have our gas storage facilities. can be used as such a European safe to store additional volumes of gas for Europe in case of winter. differences in the winter, “said Shmygal.