Russia bypasses Ukraine to ship EU gas via Turkey
MOSCOW, 28 Sept. - (ANA) - Hungary has told Ukraine to stay out of its gas contracts, after Budapest made a 15-year deal to take more volumes via Russia's new Turkey pipeline, called Turkstream, which bypasses Ukraine.
"Energy safety is a matter of [national] security," Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó said.
The Russian deal was a "purely political, economically unreasonable decision", Ukraine's foreign ministry said. Russia recently completed another pipeline, Nord Stream 2, also bypassing Ukraine. - (ANA) -
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