• Blade9732@lemmy.world
    14·
    3 days ago

    I hate all these headlines saying “Ukraine shuts off gas pipeline”. The simple fact is that the original contract has ended and Russia refuses to pay the new price for gas transit. What is this new price, you ask? Simple, to turn the pipeline back on, Russia just needs to go home. Ukraine would let it go for free in exchange for Russia to fuck right off and leave.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    15·
    3 days ago

    Russia has been paying Ukraine to carry its gas through Ukrainian pipelines as part of a 2019 deal between the two countries.

    Doesn’t one party invading the other void all international contracts between the two? And has Russia really been paying Ukraine while also occupying Ukrainian territory?

    • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
      301·
      3 days ago

      Part of it was Ukraine wanting to avoid angering some of the Europeans that weren’t weaning themselves off of Russian NG quick enough. Had they cut it off earlier, it would have given people like Orban in Hungary ammunition to say to his own people “look how the Ukrainians don’t care about us!”