The first Russian escalation on the energy front seems to have been made by Moscow on Tuesday, as the Polish company PGNiG SA, which buys natural gas from Russia’s Gazprom under a long-term contract expiring this year, confirmed that the supply of Russian natural gas to Poland via the Yamal-Europe pipeline discontinued from tomorrow.
As the SKAI correspondent in Brussels, Giannis Paleologos, stated, similar deadlines are coming on in the coming days for other countries as well.
Interfax had previously said that gas from Russia to Poland via the pipeline was no longer coming early in the morning.
A Gazprom spokesman told TASS yesterday that Poland had until today to start paying for gas supplies under a new Russian presidential decree issued in late March. This decree stipulates that payments in euros should to be converted into rubles to complete the transaction.
Poland imports 46% of its gas, 64% of its oil and 15% of its coal from Russia, according to Forum Energii, a think tank. This makes it one of the top buyers of Russian energy in the EU. “A difficult position for a government that considers itself a key ally of Ukraine,” commented the site Politico.
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