Before his landslide election victory in April, the comedian played a history teacher-turned-president on a hit Ukrainian sitcom. ... This included an effort to boost Ukrainian armed forces with U.S. funds in the face of Russia’s military involvement. . ..…

This means that the Ukrainian gas transit route will be needed for at least 45 bcm of the volumes that Russia was planning to direct to the Baltic route. . . . . ..…

Incidentally, earlier, Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued statement that the hype about the integration program with Russia has no basis in reason or fact. They believe that Ukrainian authorities treated Russians on certain issues so when they think they can also lose Belarus,..…