Ukraine could consider continued transit of Russian gas on the condition that Moscow does not receive money for the fuel until after the war, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday.

Ukraine will not extend the transit agreement for Russian gas through its territory, set to expire on Dec. 31, President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on Dec. 19 during a press conference in Brussels.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday signalled openness to allowing the transit of non-Russian gas through his country to Central Europe. If a receiving country was able to guarantee that the gas is not of Russian origin and that Moscow is not profiting from the fuel,

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday it was now clear that there would be no new gas transit deal with Kyiv to send Russian gas through Ukraine to Europe, but that Russia would survive. Russia, which before the Ukraine war was the biggest single supplier of natural gas to Europe,