Bulgaria suspending Russian gas transit for short-term contracts in 2026

Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov. [Stoyan Nenov/Reuters]

Bulgaria will suspend Russian state transit for short-term contracts successful 2026 arsenic portion of European Union plans to chopped disconnected Russian state imports completely, Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov told Bulgarian quality bureau BTA.

The European Union initially planned to chopped disconnected imports of Russian state by the extremity of 2027, which would extremity decades-old vigor relations with a state that was erstwhile Europe’s biggest state supplier.

But past week EU officials said the bloc planned to bring that guardant by a year. 

“As a subordinate of the EU, we will articulation the determination to suspend, successful the abbreviated term, successful 2026, contracts for the use oregon transit of Russian earthy gas, and successful the agelong term, by 2028,” BTA quoted Zhelyazkov arsenic saying connected Wednesday.

European Union subordinate Bulgaria, which had been totally babelike connected Russian state until 2022, has been seeking to diversify its state supplies and find cheaper sources.

Russian state was substituted with Azeri state and liquefied earthy state from a terminal successful Greece. [Reuters]