Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attend an inauguration ceremony of a new gas pipeline “TurkStream” on Jan. 8, 2020 in Istanbul.
Serbian company Srbijagas and Hungarian FGSZ connected sections of the TurkStream pipeline on Sunday, connecting the two countries’ gas networks. The new section will allow Russia to transfer its gas to Hungary across the Black Sea, bypassing the territory of Ukraine.
Dusan Bajatovic, the chief executive of Serbian- and Russian-owned Gastrans, said the interconnector would deliver gas arriving in Turkey to Central Europe via Bulgaria and Serbia.