EU to ask Russia to accept monitoring mission to check pressure at inlet to Ukraine's GTS

18:35, 02.09.2016 1 min read

The European Commission (EC) has monitored the issue of gas pressure in the territory of Ukraine and appealed to Russia asking to allow checking pressure in the inlet to the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS), EC Vice President Maros Sefcovic has said at a briefing in Kyiv.

"The mission [at the invitation of Naftogaz] came to Ukraine and conducted necessary work to resolve the problem. The next step is an appeal to Russia to study the situation on the other side [of the border]," he said.

As reported, Naftogaz Ukrainy Board Chairman Andriy Kobolev in late July accused Russia of reducing pressure at the inlet to the country's gas transportation system, which led to some technological problems at Ukrtransgaz. Gazprom explained the fall in transit on the Ukrainian direction with the weather factor and the decrease in consumers' applications.