The Turkish Stream is currently one of the most important arteries of gas supplies from Russia to Europe, it works properly and without failures, unlike all other areas of Russian hydrocarbon supplies, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, RIA Novosti reports.

Turkish Stream, which we finished building some time ago, today is one of the most important arteries of supply of Russian gas to Europe. "And the Turkish Stream, unlike all other areas of our hydrocarbon supplies, works properly, works rhythmically, without any failures," Putin said at a meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.

Gazprom supplies gas through the Turkish Stream from Russia across the Black Sea to Turkey and to the countries of Southern and Southeastern Europe in transit through Turkish territory. The designed capacity of the pipeline is 31.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year.