US backs resumption of Russian gas flows to Europe via Ukraine, officials say

The significance here is less about gas volumes than about the political architecture being floated: Washington endorsing flows through Ukrainian transit reverses the post-2022 framing in which those flows were treated as leverage to be squeezed. That shift lands hardest on European buyers who have spent years repricing supply risk around transit, and on Ukraine, which would host — and take on the associated risk for — the very infrastructure it has argued against. The open question is whether an energy ceasefire can be separated from the broader conflict, or whether transit becomes another front that can be shut off again.