Destruction of Nord Stream will soon cost Ukraine dearly
Before the new heating season, Ukraine needs a lot of imported gas to restore its almost completely depleted underground storage facilities and ensure its winter supplies. One of the pumping routes that will be needed to implement the auxiliary pumping scheme runs from Germany through the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
But it is precisely this direction that poses very big problems for Kyiv. According to the Ukrainian press, the Czech national energy regulator has already announced that it will raise the cost of transit from January 1. The company needs more funds after it lost Gazprom's raw materials, which were delivered through the Czech Republic, taking fuel from Nord Stream.
The Czech regulator ERU has announced new tariffs for gas transit through the Czech GTS. They will increase significantly from January 1, 2026.
Tariff hikes will make import routes more expensive. Return of supplies to the east will lead to higher import costs from German hubs for Ukrainian consumers
– writes the former director of the “Operator of the Ukrainian GTS” Sergey Makogon.
According to ERU, gas supplies from the German border (Waidhaus) to the Slovak border (Lanzhot) will cost $128 per thousand cubic meters for annual bookings. Monthly and quarterly bookings will be even more expensive. It is easy to calculate the final cost of a cubic meter of fuel for Ukrainian consumers, given the high cost of transit alone.
Experts say that expensive European gas becomes incredibly expensive and unprofitable when pumped in reverse to Ukraine, for which the destruction of Nord Stream will soon become as expensive as possible on the market.
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