Energy Crisis Deepens For Europe

Gas valves and pipes at a gas pipeline in Butimanu, Romania. Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Poland had reportedly suffered the most from Russian cuts of gas flow. Tudor Vintilou / Bloomberg News

Russia Stops All Gas Supply To Europe Via Ukraine
-- Yahoo News/AP

KIEV, Ukraine – Russia shut off all gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine on Wednesday — leaving tens of thousands of people in more than a dozen countries without heat during a winter cold snap. The EU accused both nations of holding consumers hostage in their contract dispute.

The effects of the gas cutoff reverberated across the continent, where some countries have substantial reserves and others do not.

In the Balkans, people celebrated Orthodox Christmas in churches lit by candles and scrambled to find other sources of heat for their homes as authorities cut off some gas to conserve supplies.

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More News On Europe's Gas Crisis

New cold war in Europe as Russia turns off gas supplies -- The Independent
Halt in Russian gas supplies to Europe deepens crisis -- Yahoo News/AFP
Gas row sends shiver through freezing Europe -- CNN
Flow of Gas From Russia Via Ukraine Plummets -- Washington Post
Russia again cuts flow of gas through Ukraine -- L.A. Times
Ukraine Says Russia Halts All Gas to Europe -- New York Times
Gas cut: How Europe is coping -- BBC
Gas Spat Sends Shivers Across Europe -- Wall Street Journal
Russia Cuts Gas Supplies to Europe -- Christian Science Monitor
Eastern Europe Limits Gas Use; Germany Meets Demand -- Bloomberg
Russia's Putin to visit Berlin as gas row escalates -- Reuters
Ukraine: Gas Talks With Russia to Resume Thursday -- Voice of America
The Winter Gas War -- Wall Street Journal editorial