Russia should be held accountable for any humanitarian impact after The flow of Russian gas was stopped today to Europe through a transit point in Ukraine, as announced today by the management company of the Ukrainian gas transmission network.
Ukraine announced yesterday, Tuesday, that it will cut off gas flow through its transit point Sohranifka. The country announced that the actions of the Russian forces, which invaded Ukraine on February 24, endanger the stability and security of the entire Ukrainian gas transmission system and that it would transport these flows to another location.
“This morning (Russian state gas company) Gazprom in the territory of the Russian Federation stopped the transfer from the Russian Federation to the point of entry Sohranifka,” he wrote in a Facebook post. Sergei MakogonGeneral Manager of the Management Company of the Gas Transmission System of Ukraine.
He also stated that cranes at pipeline installations were excluded without authorization on Ukrainian territory which, according to him, has been occupied by Russian forces. This, he said, has made it impossible to feed consumers in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, large parts of which are in the hands of pro-Russian separatists.
«The Russian authorities bear full responsibility for the humanitarian consequences of these actions“, He wrote in his post.
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