According to a statement from the Ukrainian Gas Transmission System Operator (OGTSU), Ukraine ceased transiting Russian natural gas on January 1, 2025. The country’s gas transmission system (GTS) is now operating in a no-transit mode.
“At 7:00 am Kyiv time on January 1, 2025, the Interconnection Agreement between OGTSU and Gazprom for physical connection points between Ukraine’s and Russia’s gas transmission systems, signed on December 30, 2019, expired,” the statement reads.
This termination halted natural gas transportation from the Sudzha entry point on Ukraine’s eastern border to exit points on the western and southern borders, effectively ending Russian gas transit through Ukraine.
OGTSU reported informing international partners of the change in advance and assured readiness for the new operational conditions.
“OGTSU prepared the infrastructure for functioning without transit and for reliably supplying Ukrainian consumers. Our team is ready to work in this new environment,” said OGTSU CEO Dmytro Lyppa.
The company also secured agreements to increase guaranteed capacities to ensure gas supply both within Ukraine and to European consumers.
Although countries such as Austria and Slovakia are still dependent on fuel from the East, the termination of the transit agreement between Russia and Ukraine on December 31 will have little impact on the strengthened European gas market, said CEO of German energy company Uniper Michael Lewis in an interview with Bloomberg.
Ukraine does not intend to extend the gas transit agreement with Russia, which expired at the end of 2024 and is ready to discuss the transit of gas from other suppliers through its GTS if requested by Europe.
Earlier, Slovakia confirmed that the cessation of Russian gas transit through Ukraine will not result in a gas shortage in the country.
