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” KIEV, September 8 (Itar-Tass) — Russia’s refusal to upgrade gas contracts with Ukraine threatens gas transit to Europe, Bogdan Sokolovsky, representative of the Ukrainian president on international aspects of energy security, said here.A possible refusal of Russia to change the tariffs “creates serious threats to the normal functioning of Naftogaz Ukrainy and, consequently, to the continuous transit of Russian gas by the Ukrainian territory,” said Sokolovsky, whose words were quoted by the presidential press service.According to Sokolovsky, the top officials of the Ukrainian government are fully to blame for the negative consequences for Ukraine of the contracts, signed on January 19, and for the revision of some of their provisions. In his opinion, the government should have exerted maximum efforts for correcting its mistakes, made during the signing of the contracts. “You heard it here first! Ukraine is going to cause another gas crisis ’cause they couldn’t get things all their way back in January!