In Kiev, they came up with how to get $ 2.56 billion from Russia, which awarded the Stockholm Arbitration. Ukrainians will take in the EU countries Russian gas for a corresponding amount. Europe has already agreed with this option. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for European Integration Elena Zerkal said that the diplomatic department is initiating the tripartite negotiations Ukraine-EU-Russia on ensuring the stability of gas supplies to Ukraine and the EU countries. "We are ready to resume trilateral talks in this regard," confirmed the head of the EU foreign policy department, Federica Magerini. Russia refuses to sit down at the negotiating table, arguing that fuel supplies are an internal affair of the companies that have signed the contract, the "Free Press". Director of the Institute of National Energy Sergei Pravosudov notes that the Russian concern will have to accept the decisions of the Stockholm Arbitration and implement them. "In the famous agreement between Gazprom and Naftogaz, which formally operates until the end of 2019. , it is written that the parties must resolve disputes at the Stockholm Arbitration Court.

This means that "Gazprom" - one way or another - has undertaken to implement the decisions of Stockholm. And this is a fact that is difficult to argue with, "the expert believes.. However, according to him, in the same agreement, no penalties were fixed in case Russia pumped less than 110 billion cubic meters of gas per year into the EU in the Ukrainian territory. However, in Stockholm they did not agree with this. "The court found that Gazprom was obliged to transit 110 billion. cubic meters. And counted a $ 4.64 billion fine for gas shortage.

Moreover, the penalties will be charged even further if Gazprom does not transit the notorious 110 billion. cubes. It is clear that such a situation, Gazprom did not suit. The company filed an appeal, and waits for what will happen next. But the problem is what to do with the decision already made by Stockholm, "explained Justice. So far, Gazprom has no choice but to implement the decision to avoid charging penalties and fines. In order not to pay, the Russian concern initiated the termination of the contract, arguing that arbitration completely revised the original conditions. But the Ukrainians have already begun to arrest Russian gas assets, and now they are also threatening to arrest the gas itself. It can happen according to the following scheme: "Ukraine now does not buy blue fuel in Russia - it buys it from European companies, and pays for this gas. Europe, in theory, can make it so that the supplied non-gas gas will be paid by Gazprom. Ukraine in this case will take gas from Europe for free, and the account of the EU will expose Gazprom,.

And by that to cover the fine of the Russian concern in $ 2.56 billion, which counted the Stockholm Arbitration ". At the same time, Deputy Director General of the National Energy Security Fund Alexei Grivach points out that legal proceedings over the arrest of Russian gas in Europe will take a long time. "Ukraine can create a problem, but I do not rule out that as a result courts will stand on the side of Gazprom," the expert said..

The scheme with the free supply of gas from Europe to Ukraine, with subsequent invoicing for Gazprom, appears to Grivach unrealizable. "If Ukraine and will manage to foreclose on something in the framework of this dispute, then it should be strictly property of" Gazprom ".

The same gas that Europe delivers to Ukraine is not the property of Gazprom, but of European traders. And the fact that traders themselves bought this gas in Russia, does not play a role, "the expert said..