REUTERS
In 2017, Ukraine transported a record high volume of natural gas over the past few years.
Transit shipments of natural gas through the Ukrainian gas transmission system (GTS) in January-July 2018 declined by 4.2% year-over-year (y-o-y), to 50.946 billion cubic meters (bcm).
Read alsoUkrtransgaz announces tenders for purchasing technological gas worth over US$809 mln
In particular, gas transit supplies from Russia via Ukraine in July 2018 alone stood at 8.46 bcm, which was 12.9% up y-o-y, the state-run gas transport system operator Ukrtransgaz said.
As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine transported 93 bcm of gas to the European countries in 2017, which was a record high amount in the past years.
Transit shipments of natural gas through the Ukrainian GTS in 2016 grew by 23% from 2015, to 82.2 bcm.