Ukraine reports record high gas transit shipments in nine years

REUTERS

This is a record high volume in the past nine years, it said.

Read alsoPreservation of gas transit via Ukraine may restrain Russia's further aggression – Naftogaz CEOAs UNIAN reported earlier, gas transit via Ukraine's GTS in 2016 rose by 23% from 2015, to 82.2 billion cubic meters.

In the eight months of 2017, Ukraine shipped 61.2 billion cubic meters of gas, which was 23% up year-over-year.