The Russian gas giant Gazprom has cut off gas supplies to Europe through the Yamal gas pipeline, specifically through Poland, after Russia imposed sanctions against the Polish owner of the section, EuRoPol GAZ, reported in a statement.
“In accordance with the decree of the President of the Russian Federation &number;252 of May 3 and the Government resolution &number;851 of May 11, sanctions were imposed on several foreign companies. Among them is EuRoPol GAZ, owner of the section Yamal-Europe gas pipeline,” said Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kuprianov.
For this reason, he added in the Telegram account of the russian gas company“A ban on transactions and payments in favor of persons subject to sanctions has been imposed, which means in particular for Gazprom a ban on the use of the gas pipeline owned by EuRoPol GAZ to transport Russian gas through Poland.”
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The transnational Yamal-Europe gas pipeline crosses the territory of four countries: Russia, Belarus, Poland and Germany. Its capacity is 32.9 billion cubic meters of gas per year. According to the official TASS agency, recently this route for gas transportation to Europe has practically not been used due to the lack of requests from European consumers.
Gazprom It already suspended gas “completely” at the end of April, not only to Poland (through the gas distributor PGNiG), but also to Bulgaria (Bulgargaz), for refusing to pay for supplies in rubles, as demanded by the president Russian, Vladimir Putin, in another decree of March 31.
On Wednesday, Russia listed 31 foreign energy companies, including EuRoPol Gaz, in Moscow sanctions list and therefore “they will not be able to participate in the processes of supplying gas from Russia,” according to the Kremlin.
“These are sanctions that veto those companies. Therefore, we will not have any interaction with those companies, they are simply vetoed,” the Kremlin spokesman, Kremlin, said in his daily telephone press conference. Dmitry Peskov.
Among the companies sanctioned are companies from Germany, France and other European countries, as well as from the US and Singapore.
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