old pipelines that brought its gas to western europe have reached their capacity limit north stream to abse to more lines but it also makes russia far less dependent on the pipelines that cross ukrainian territory and that makes ukraine nervous it needs gas but relations between the 2 countries are bitter russia's existing gas contracts with ukraine expire at the end of the year and with north stream 2 coming online it's in no hurry to renew them the e.u. has tried to mediate in vain. the time is flying and given that they. are the thirties and there must be a clear sense of urgency therefore i appeal to everyone there on the table to be constructive as possible unfortunately i have to say that i'm disappointed by today's outcome and i say this very open. moscow has