Earlier in the month, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk expressed concern that the construction of the second leg of Russia's Nord Stream pipeline would deprive Kiev the ability to transit gas to the European Union and lead to a loss of $2 billion in revenue.
"This is a project that will ensure stable gas supplies in the long run, not only for the northern part of Europe but… for another part of Europe as well," Chizhov said in an interview with Rossiya-24 television, stressing that Nord Stream-2 is not a political project aimed at pushing Ukraine back from gas transit.
Chizhov stressed that Gazprom would not be able to supply gas through Ukraine should Kiev and Moscow fail to sign a new contract or have any agreement on the issue.
The Nord Stream-2 project's capacity could reach up to 55 billion cubic meters of direct annual gas supplies from Russia through the Baltic Sea to European customers.
