Russia’s energy giant Gazprom says it won’t reopen the largest natural gas pipeline to Europe, as planned. Operations were meant to resume this weekend but Russia claims there’s an ongoing fault.
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As moscow flexes its might in week-long military drills with china another weapon in its arsenal is being further deployed its energy russia has suspended natural gas flows through the nordstream one pipeline and won’t say when they’ll resume capable of pumping 170 million cubic meters of natural gas a day to europe it’s been
Operating at just 20 capacity since late july doubling european gas prices now europe’s energy woes are set to get even worse we are facing now winter time where we will be challenged as democratic politicians people will go on the street and say we cannot pay our energy prices
And i will say yes i know so we help you with social measures gasprom says its suspension of operations is due to a technical fault but it’s being seen as retaliation for a plan by g7 countries to impose a price cap on russian oil sanctions will not only limit the flow
Of oil dollars and gas heroes to moscow but also importantly restore justice for all europeans whom russia is trying to blackmail with artificially inflated energy prices russia says the strategy won’t work and is threatening to cut off suppliers to any country that abides by the price cap
But the g7 will try to block insurance coverage and finance for shipments that breach the rules it’s all aimed at robbing russia of the cash it needs to fund its conquest in ukraine which inflicts more death and destruction on its people every day nick dole abc news you