the head of the operator of the gas transportation system of ukraine in 2019 from 2000 to 2022 serhii makogo headed this institution good evening mr. serhii good evening mr. serhii here it appeared after well a certain comfort information that russia is renewing slightly increases the supply of its gas through the ukrainian hts had to stop the supply of blue fuel to the european market in the first months, so to speak, to reduce the kremlin's income that goes to the war, what is your opinion? well, first of all, i would like to say that well, it is incorrect to call it a very large increase in transit, yes, in fact, they returned to of that transit, which was last year somewhere around 40-42 million cubic meters per day, and this is less than what they pay us for transit, russia has still booked and pays for 109 million cubic meters per day, that hut they use almost a third of what they booked and what they paid for. the question of the continuation of transit is a very difficult and more political issue , because ukraine never in 2009, not in 2006, when there was a stoppage of the transit o