The Baltic states have not received gas from the Russian Federation from the 1st of Aprilbecame known today Sunday, at a time when Moscow is repeatedly threatening Europe with shortages of “weapons” of hydrocarbons and food.
Russia has not supplied gas to the Baltic states since early April – Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, The chairman of the board of the Latvian gas company Conexus Baltic Grid Uldis Bariss told reporters.
He stated, however, that the Inčukalns gas storage facility now contains almost as much gas as much as Latvia and Lithuania consume together during the winter months, so there is no cause for concern in the coming months.
Russia will export food and grain only to “friendly countries” with payments in rubles or in their national currency, the Russian news agency RIA reported, citing a statement today by Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia.
In the previous days o President of the Duma Vyacheslav Volodin warned the EU that if it wanted to import gas from Russia, will have to pay in rubles, he added that the same may apply to exports of oil, cereals, metals, fertilizers, coal and timber.
After the West imposed severe sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that the gas exported to the EU be paid in rubles. The G7 energy ministers rejected this request on Tuesday, while the French President Emanuel Macron clarified to his Russian counterpart that such a thing would be impossible.
Wheat from Argentina, feed from India: The government plan for food shielding
The complete 12-point drawing which was adopted at a meeting at the Maximos Palace under Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for the shielding the country from deficiencies in field of foodpresents the “Sunday Daily”.
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