Noting that Soviet Ukraine produced three times as much gas a year in the 1970s as independent Ukraine does today, Todd Prince, a RFE/RL reporter, asks:

Noting that Soviet Ukraine produced three times as much gas a year in the 1970s as independent Ukraine does today, Todd Prince, a RFE/RL reporter, asks: “After Years Of Stalling, Can Ukraine Finally Become Energy Self-Sufficient?” Advancing free-market changes started in the late Poroshenko presidency, Zelenskiy recently ordered his government to sign contracts with winners of 10 oil and gas tenders held this summer by Dec. 1. He ordered more electronic auctions of licenses and production sharing contracts. With 1.1 trillion cubic meters of gas, Ukraine has the third-largest proven reserves of natural gas in Europe, after Russia and Norway, according to British Petroleum.