Thursday, June 9, 2022

Kremlin Says It Doesn't Expect to Cut Off Gas Supplies To Additional countries

OilPrice.com: Russia Claims It Won't Cut Off Gas Supply To More EU Customers 

 Russia does not plan to stop natural gas supply to more customers in Europe, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday. 

Customers that have refused to pay for gas under the new rules Russia has imposed are already cut off, and no new halts in supply are planned, Peskov told reporters at a regular briefing, as carried by Russian news agency TASS. 

Russia has already stopped gas supply to Poland, Bulgaria, Finland, the Netherlands, and customers in Denmark and Germany that have refused to pay in rubles for gas. Russia wants the countries it considers "unfriendly" – the whole of the EU, its biggest gas customer, the U.S., and UK, and many other U.S. allies – to pay in rubles for gas. Some have refused, fearing that they would not have guarantees and saying the new currency demand is a breach of contracts the gas importers have with Russian gas giant Gazprom.  

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Update #1: Russia doesn't expect to cut off gas supply to additional European countries (Insider)  

Update #2: Kremlin says no more gas cuts to European customers expected (Reuters)  

WNU Editor: The Kremlin are confident that there will be no more cuts. But as the war continues to grind on in Ukraine, the situation can change very quickly.

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