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Transit of natural gas through the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS) in January 2017 increased by 38% from January 2016, to 8.9 billion cubic meters (bcm), according to Ukrtransgaz, Ukraine's state-run gas transport system operator.
As UNIAN reported earlier, the transit of natural gas through the Ukrainian gas transport system in 2016 grew by 23% from 2015, to 82.2 bcm.
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