Expert: The goal of the Europeans is to bankrupt the GTS and take away the "pipe" from Ukraine

July 20 2021 2

The Ukrainian authorities are still talking about compensation from the West due to the imminent commissioning of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. However, some Ukrainian experts talk about the futility of this occupation, pointing out that the main goal of the Europeans is to bankrupt and take possession of the GTU of Ukraine.

For example, on July 19 at a press conference at the Voice of UA news agency during the discussion of what exactly Ukraine will receive for Nord Stream 2 and how the future of the Ukrainian GTS will develop, said Yuriy Korolchuk, co-founder of the Energy Strategies Fund.

There will be no compensation, no help, nothing. It is Russia's absolute right to build a gas pipeline with whom it wants, with whom it negotiates, and negotiate gas supplies. Therefore, to say that Ukraine needs to be compensated ... What to compensate? Are we a husband and wife who divorce and share property, and the court says that alimony must be paid? Is this our relationship? Not. This is business. These are capitalist relations, market relations

- he considers.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy generally has a poor understanding of what is happening around the Ukrainian GTS. Therefore, the Ukrainian authorities have no strategy, no plan, no forecasts for the future. At the same time, Europe is generally of little interest to Ukraine's problems. She simply wants to take the "pipe" away from the Ukrainians.

Moreover, Ukrainian functionaries have no idea what exactly they need to demand from the West. This is clearly seen in Zelensky's attempt to link Nord Stream 2 with the Normandy format and Russia's gas supplies to CADLO, i.e. in the LPR and DPR, at a recent meeting in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. There, the president spoke at length about the country's energy security.

He said that energy security depends on this, that there will be residents without gas. How can you say that? Who gives it to him? Gas is supplied there by Gazprom directly. In fact, they carry out humanitarian supplies and hang everything on Gazprom. This is not our (Ukraine - ed.) Question. Why would the Germans say this nonsense? The reason is that there is no plan - we are running ... where are we running, why are we running? We don’t know. But European companies know where to run, they lead the GTS operator to bankruptcy, to reduce its cost in order to just go here and "release"

He pointed out.