State Department Confident that Ukraine Will No Longer Resume Gas Transit from Russia

US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Geoffrey Pyatt has expressed confidence that Ukraine will not resume gas transit from Russia through its territory. “I am convinced that there is no turning back,” he said in a speech to the Atlantic Council organization in Washington, kommersant.ru reported. Pyatt said Europe is now becoming “definitively independent” of Russian energy resources, and the halt in transit through Ukraine is accompanied by “dramatic growth” in the LNG-related industry in the US. On the morning of 1 January, Gazprom stopped supplying gas to Europe via Ukraine due to the expiry of the Russian company’s contract with Ukraine’s Naftogaz. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto described Kyiv’s decision as unacceptable. According to him, Ukraine’s refusal of transit caused gas prices in Europe to rise by 20%. At the beginning of the month, the cost of fuel increased to the maximum since October 2023. By 6 January, prices fell to the values of the end of December.