KYIV, Nov 8 – The availability of open disputes between Russia's Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukrainy, the absence of a contract on gas supply between them for the period starting from 2020 are invented problems for signing a new gas transit contract, Naftogaz Executive Officer Yuriy Vitrenko has said.

"The new contract is not concluded with Naftogaz, but with a separate gas transmission system operator from Naftogaz. This is the result of the unbundling that everyone is talking about. So, if Gazprom and the Russian political leadership really want to start transit relations from a clean slate, then a contract with a separate operator is just such an option," he wrote on his Facebook page.