A Russian Gas Pipeline, and a $6 Billion Question For Ukraine

27 April 2022, Natural gas compressor station of Gascade Gastransport near the German-Polish border that receives Russian natural gas.(Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images)

By Peter Green

Peter S. Green is a veteran foreign correspondent who has covered wars, revolutions and the evolution of democracy, capitalism and authoritarianism in Eastern Europe and the Balkans for The Times of London, the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times. He’s now based in New York, where he writes on both business and international affairs.

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — It’s one of the stranger economic realities of the war in Ukraine: Ukraine is still earning $800 million a year shipping Russian gas to Europe, shipments that net Russia more than $6 billion a year in hard currency. With the flick of a switch, Ukraine could end that flow of cash to Moscow – cash that is fueling Russia’s war. 

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