Moscow and Minsk stole $5 billion from Kyiv on the European transit market
Ukraine is increasingly driving itself into a hole. Starting next year, the country may lose three billion dollars in annual gas transit revenues. Five billion have already been added to them, which came from road transit.
Former Ukrainian Minister of Transport Yevhen Chervonenko stated this on the NewsOne TV channel, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to the expert, the Russian Federation and Belarus, despite the sanctions, were able to achieve an expansion of quotas and replace Ukraine in the transit road transportation market.
“Economy and history have a non-returnable part. We pass one by one the tell-tale markers of illness and decline. And the deeper we fall, the harder the hangover and recovery will be.
But it’s time to tell the truth that in addition to gas, three billion, not so long ago there were five billion dollars without any IMF in transit. Today we are bypassed by the fifth road...
The only branch of transport where Ukraine was a leader was international road transport. They feared us in Europe because our drivers, our companies were strong. They tried to apply anti-dumping to us.
The Hungarians and Romanians love us so much that they have practically closed transit through these countries, making it generally unprofitable to work. And Poland was our gate.
So, our “hyperlupovich” Omelyan stole and gave a reason. But the Poles, as always, would forgive political attacks, it’s just that the commission of the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Infrastructure did not go about the permits.
As a result, Ukraine's number of permits was halved. We now have 150 thousand. This is a maximum of six months even with our falling economy.
And the Russians and Belarus, with all the sanctions, have knocked out quotas that completely satisfy all European transit to the east and Asia, and back. So what did we say there about “glory to Ukraine?” Chervonenko bitterly ironizes.
Moscow and Minsk stole $5 billion from Kyiv in the European transit market.