MOSCOW, Dec 22 - Russian gas group Gazprom has raised its additional transportation capacity requests for gas exports to Europe through Ukraine in January, based on trading platform data, Reuters reported.

Data from the Hungarian Regional Booking Platform showed the Ukrainian gas transportation operator has sold 41.2 million cubic metres per day of pipeline capacity to Gazprom at an auction for transportation of gas via the Sudzha transhipment point at the Russia/Ukraine border for January.