Two top German officials called Wednesday for Russian gas transit to continue across Ukraine into the 2020s

Two top German officials called Wednesday for Russian gas transit to continue across Ukraine into the 2020s. Foreign Minister Gayko Maas told reporters in Kyiv: “We support negotiations regarding gas transit through Ukraine. We believe that transit should continue after 2019.” Steffen Seibert, Germany’s government spokesman, told Interfax-Ukraine: “We are doing what we can do to solve this problem. The German position is that after the launch of the Nord Stream 2 gas transit through Ukraine should remain.”