Gas flow through Sudzha back to normal: Gazprom

(ANSA) - BELGRADE, AUG 20 - The transit of Russian gas to Europe via the pipeline that passes through Sudzha, where fighting is taking place between Moscow's and Kiev's forces, has resumed after the weekend, totalling more than 42 million cubic metres per day, said Sergei Kupriyanov, a representative of Gazprom, Russia's state-owned energy company. After Russia, the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod pipeline passes through Ukraine, which continues to pay Moscow for transit rights. Finally, it arrives in Slovakia, where it divides into two sections, one bound for the Czech Republic and the other for Austria. Slovakia and Austria, along with Hungary, are the main buyers. (ANSA).