“There are routes related to Turkey for gas transit to European countries. There are supplies of liquefied gas that are in demand now. There are alternative routes, so this will lead to changes,” Peskov stressed.

Earlier this week, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico affirmed after a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, Denys Shmyhal, in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, that Kiev and Bratislava had reached a preliminary agreement on the continuation of Russian gas transit to Europe.

The five-year contract between Ukraine’s Naftogaz and Russia’s Gazprom expired in late 2019. Russian gas flows through Ukraine to Austria, Slovakia, Italy, and Hungary. The current volume of transit is 42 million cubic meters per day.

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