Quote from: shield132 on May 26, 2024, 12:53:16 PM

They sanction Russia but then buy from the middleman which results in significantly expensive prices and problematic delivery. You have a pipeline with Russia, just get gas through it, what's the point of a middleman buying it for you from Russia, and then delivering it to you? I don't know. It's not a boycott, it's something else.
My country for example, took the advantage of this situation and many rich Russian people flew here, started businesses, are paying enormously high money in rent, our local currency became very stable because of the dollars that they bought with them when they came here. I know that long-term, it will be devastating because Russians are massively buying houses, getting citizenship, investing money in businesses and acquiring them. Soon we will be the work class and they'll be business owners and landlords here.
This war is not doing any good to anyone.

Natural gas flowed from Russia to European countries in large part through Ukrainian pipelines and through the territory of Ukraine. Such gas is still delivered to the EU in limited volumes, since some EU countries need some time to completely abandon Russian gas. The treaty, which was concluded between Russia and Ukraine even before the full-scale attack on Ukraine, expires this year 2024. Ukraine continues to fulfill the terms of the agreement on the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine in order to avoid possible lawsuits and not lose the image of a reliable partner. But the Ukrainian authorities have already made a statement several times that after the expiration of the agreement on the transit of Russian gas on December 31, 2024, they do not intend to extend its validity. Therefore, the situation with Russian gas supplies is changing and will continue to change. The main thing is that EU countries are looking for ways to completely abandon Russian gas, and this time will come anyway.