A Russian Gas Pipeline, and a $6 Billion Question For Ukraine

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — It’s one of the stranger economic realities of the war in Ukraine: Ukraine is still earning $800 million a year shipping Russian gas to Europe, shipments that net Russia more than $6 billion a year in hard currency. With the flick of a switch, Ukraine could end that flow of cash to Moscow – cash that is fueling Russia’s war.

Why wouldn’t Ukraine do that?

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