State of Russian gas flows via Ukraine in 2025: What Central & Eastern European countries can expect

As Europe navigates the protracted energy crisis, uncertainties loom over its pipeline gas supplies from Russia, particularly through the Eastern corridor. After the halt of Russian gas flows through the Yamal and NordStream 1 pipelines in 2022, the region now risks losing the Russian supply it receives via Ukraine. Ukraine has expressed its intention not to renew the transit contract with Russia, set to expire by the end of the year. In this first piece of a two-part blog series, Kpler Insight will explore how such an event could affect Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. The second piece will focus on the options these countries have to diversify their gas supply in the event of a disruption.