Vladimir Putin (Photo YouTube/ The Sun, CNN)
Western countries fear that Moscow is raising fuel prices to try to weaken their resolve in resisting its invasion of Ukraine, a tactic that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday called economic terrorism. Moscow denies it is doing it.
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The Nord Stream 1 pipeline, the main pipeline for Russian gas to Europe, has become a flashpoint in the economic war between Moscow and Brussels. Europe already understands that supplies will be squeezed when Gazprom closes the Nord Stream 1 from Wednesday to Friday for maintenance.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that technological problems caused by Western sanctions were the only thing standing in the way of supplying gas through Nord Stream 1.
But France’s energy transition minister, Agnes Fanier-Rancher, said on Tuesday: “It is very clear that Russia is using gas as a weapon of war and we must prepare for the worst-case scenario of a complete cutoff in supplies.”
She was talking to a radio France Inter After the French company Engie ENGIE.PA said it would receive less gas from Gazprom from Tuesday because of an unspecified contractual dispute.
Russia pumped gas through Nord Stream 1 At only 20% of capacity and there is a fear that the break this week could be extended.
“There are guarantees that apart from technological problems caused by sanctions, nothing is hindering the supply,” Peskov said in the Kremlin when asked if there are guarantees that Gazprom will restart gas flow through Nord Stream 1.
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