KYIV, Sept 24 – The implementation of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 project would result in the loss of gas transit across Ukraine, former President Leonid Kuchma said Monday.

He lamented the fact that a gas transmission consortium for the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS) was not created.

"Do you imagine what Nord Stream 2 is for Ukraine? It means that our pipe is almost empty. They say and promise that we are considering something to be left. But nothing will be left, if the Nord Stream 2 [is implemented]. There is Turkish Stream. Then nothing remains for Ukraine - 10-15 billion [cubic meters]," Kuchma said at a press conference in Dnipro on Friday, September 21.