Ukraine To Receive Azeri Gas For The First Time Via Trans-Balkan Corridor

• 28.07.2025, 10:37

This is a strategically important step.

Naftohaz Ukrainy has signed the first agreement on the purchase of Azerbaijani gas with SOCAR.

This was reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to the press service of the NJSC.

According to the press service, for the first time the test gas supply is carried out through the Trans-Balkan corridor along the route Bulgaria - Romania - Ukrainian border.

"This is a small volume, but strategically important step, which opens the way to long-term cooperation. And also another example of diversification of supply sources and strengthening of Ukraine's energy security," the chairman of the board of Naftohaz Ukrayiny, Serhiy Koretsky, said.