(EFE).- Russian gas flows to Poland and Bulgaria have been stopped after they refused to pay in rubles, Russian gas company Gazprom said on Wednesday.
“Gazprom fully halts gas supplies to Bulgaria’s Bulgargaz and Poland’s PGNiG due to their failure to pay in rubles,” the state-controlled firm wrote on Twitter.
Polish climate and environment minister Anna Moskwa, speaking to Polish radio, said Wednesday that Poland has alternative sources of supply and that there would be no shortage of gas in the country, despite Russia’s halt of exports.
“Stocks of gas stored in Poland are around 80%, which is a lot,” she said.
“At the moment, there is no need to look for new supplies: we have LNG supplies, we have the Czech interconnector and, at a given moment, we would resort to the Lithuanian interconnector.”
Polish gas company PGNiG, meanwhile, has said that the shutdown of Russian gas supplies had been scheduled since Friday, the day the Russian deadline to start paying for gas in rubles ended.
PGNiG added that cutting off gas supplies breaches the existing contract.
“The company will take the appropriate measures to restore the delivery of natural gas under the agreed conditions and reserves the right to claim its contractual rights,” the firm pointed out.
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen called the Russian halt of gas deliveries “unjustified and unacceptable.”
“It shows once again the unreliability of Russia as a gas supplier. We are prepared for this scenario.
“We have been working to ensure alternative deliveries and the best possible storage levels across the EU.”EFE
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If this was WWII and Joe was running things, it would have been the Allied troop’s tanks running out of fuel in the battle of the bulge not the Nazis, and America and Russia would all be speaking German today and goose stepping about D.C. The Socialist controlled American media however would still look and act the same as it now does today.
AND most of the wokists would be FULLY OK WITH IT..
So if you didn’t believe we were involved in WWIII, you better think again.
WE are in it, There is know difference in us supply the bullets’ and bombs’ then us using the same. at lease we our not losing any lives doing it yet.
YET is the operative word.