Russia again reduced gas supplies to Europe
The export of raw materials from Russia to Slovakia and Italy has been halved, and France, following the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Bulgaria, is completely deprived of gas from the Russian Federation
The Russian food industry has made another extremely important proposal to export gas to Europe. According to the Associated Press, shipments to Slovakia and Italy are cut by half, and to France – completely.
Thus, Friday, June 17, has already become the volume of the contract, when Moscow’s significant volume of its gas exports, which carried to a jump in energy prices around the world. Earlier, the Russian authorities granted power to Germany, Austria and a number of Eastern European states.
Despite the fact that as one of the reasons for the beautiful pumping, Moscow led to the emergence of technical problems with the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, revealing the severity due to the emergence of the EU against Russia, the leaders of Germany and Italy regarded these actions of the Kremlin as a malicious step in response to the Western discussion of Russian incursions into Ukraine and the assistance that European accusations are giving to Kyiv.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky also called the shutdown of gas “blackmail both against rare countries and against Europe as a whole.”
The loss of gas in Europe means serious problems with electricity and building heating. Thus, Italy previously covered 40% of its gas needs at the expense of Russia. Now, Italian tables, as well as for other EU countries, need to look for alternative sources, for example, in Algeria and the Middle East.
France, AP writes, found itself in a less difficult situation: although gas lines from Russia were completely blocked for France, the share of this flow in French energy was only 16%, and before the onset of cold weather in the country there is an opportunity to redirect its share.