Russia has reduced natural gas to Europe again as countries have worked to ease their dependence on Russian supplies amid the war in Ukraine.
FILE - The logo of 'Gazprom Germania' is pictured at the company's headquarters in Berlin, April 6, 2022. Russian state-controlled energy giant Gazprom says gas deliveries through a key pipeline to Europe will drop by around 40% this year.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that the reductions are “blackmail both individual countries and Europe as a whole.” Gazprom reduced by 15% Italy's requested delivery on Wednesday. The ANSA news agency reported the Russian company dropped it by 35% on Thursday. Italy gets 40% of its gas from Russia but has been working to find alternative sources in countries like Algeria.
The cut in supplies to France was “a consequence of the already-known reduction” of gas supplies via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, German Economy Ministry spokesman Stephan Gabriel Haufe said. He didn’t have further details of specific reasons for the cut. In Slovakia, Prokypcak downplayed the impact of the cuts despite “facing a real risk will halt completely,” the CTK news agency quoted him as saying.
Slovakia has about one-third of the country’s one-year consumption in its gas storages and was planning to have enough gas for the winter season stored by July 10.
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