{"id":35520,"date":"2025-11-16T22:58:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=35520"},"modified":"2025-11-16T22:58:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:13:35","slug":"zelensky-in-greece-to-seal-energy-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/zelensky-in-greece-to-seal-energy-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky in Greece to seal energy deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Athens on Sunday, his spokesman Sergiy Nykyforov told AFP, to seal a gas deal with Greece and meet Ukraine&#8217;s winter fuel needs.<\/p>\n<p>He was received at Athens International Airport by Greek Deputy Prime Minister Kostis Hadzidakis, according to footage from Greek public television ERT.<\/p>\n<p>In his first visit since 2023, the Ukrainian leader will meet with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Before his arrival, Zelensky announced that Ukraine would import gas from Greece as the country&#8217;s own energy infrastructure has been targeted by Russian strikes.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Moscow launched its biggest bombing campaign against Ukrainian gas facilities since the start of the 2022 invasion, halting 60 percent of production of the main source of heating fuel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have already prepared an agreement with Greece on supplying gas to Ukraine,&#8221; Zelensky wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky added that Kyiv had also secured financing agreements to cover &#8220;nearly two billion euros&#8221; ($2.32 billion) of production losses caused by the Russian strikes.<\/p>\n<p>The funding comes from the Ukrainian government, European banks guaranteed by the European Commission, Ukrainian banks and Norway.<\/p>\n<p>This visit to Greece follows recent announcements of major US-supported energy projects in the country.<\/p>\n<p>On this occasion, Mitsotakis said Greece is &#8220;the natural gateway for American liquefied natural gas to replace Russian gas in the region&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The recent launch of the Trans-Adriatic pipeline connecting Greece and Bulgaria has enabled the country to contribute to the vertical corridor towards Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Hungary and Slovakia.<\/p>\n<p>The opening of storage infrastructure at the port of Alexandroupolis, near the Greek-Turkish border and where American LNG gas arrives, has also helped undermine Russia&#8217;s market in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Athens on Sunday, his spokesman Sergiy Nykyforov told AFP, to seal a gas deal with Greece and meet Ukraine&#8217;s winter fuel needs. He was received at Athens International Airport by Greek Deputy Prime Minister Kostis Hadzidakis, according to footage from Greek public television ERT. In his first visit since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35521,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35520\/revisions\/35521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}