Ukraine Protests Hungary Signing A Long Term Natural Gas Deal With Russia

RT: Hungary inks new gas supply agreement with Russia, bypassing Ukraine

Budapest signed a new long-term contract on Monday with Russia’s energy giant Gazprom for gas supplies bypassing Ukraine, Reuters reports.

The agreement was sealed by Gazprom CEO Aleksey Miller and Hungarian energy group MVM executives at the Hungarian Foreign Ministry.

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WNU Editor: Ukraine's objection to the this natural gas deal is that Hungary will be receiving natural gas via through the Turkstream pipeline (see image below) that will bypass Ukraine territory .... Russia bypasses Ukraine to ship EU gas via Turkey (EU Observer). To put it bluntly. This means no transit fees for Ukraine.

Update: Thge Kremlin has responded .... Kremlin Sees No Reason for Ukraine to Be Hysterical About Russian-Hungarian Gas Contract (Sputnik).