Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) Oleksandr Danyliuk has stated that the question of whether Ukraine will remain a transit country for Russian gas to Europe is a challenge from both an economic and geopolitical point of view.

"If to talk about the gas sector, then the challenges here are obvious. We have a question whether Ukraine will be a gas transit country in 2020. And this is an economic issue, because if this does not happen, then we will lose about $3 billion in gas transit revenues, but also a geopolitical decision, because if Ukraine, as a transit country, does not transit gas, then we will simply become an object not a subject," he said in the Pravo na Vladu program on the air of TV Channel 1+1.