Mykhailo Gonchar, President of the Centre for Global Studies Strategy XXI in the interview to Espreso. TV commented on the tripartite consultations on gas transit, held in Berlin on 17 July 2018 and tried to forecast Gazprom's future tactics. Most likely, Gazprom will fight a delaying action till Ukrainian presidential election planned for March 2019 and will try to provoke another gas crisis during future heating season, in order to descredit Ukraine as an unreliable partner and justify the construction of Nord Stream 2.