- Due to the delay of repairs by Siemens and Western sanctions against Russia.
A ship passes by the Gazprom headquarters in Saint Petersburg. / EFE
Russian gas giant Gazprom announced on Tuesday that it will cut by 40% the volume of gas it supplies to Europe through the Nord Stream pipeline due to delayed repairs by Siemens and Western sanctions against Russia.
"At the moment we guarantee a level of gas supply through the Nord Stream gas pipeline of up to 100 million cubic meters per day", of the planned 167 million cubic meters of gas per day, the company reported on its Telegram channel and collects the agency of Interfax news.
The gas pipeline starts from Russia and reaches Germany through the Baltic Sea.
The Russian company has not alluded to political reasons for this new cut, which it announced just a few days after the government stressed that there would be no further retaliation against "hostile" countries that had not complied with the order to pay for gas in rubles.
Poland, Bulgaria, Finland, the Netherlands, and Denmark have suffered these cuts, derived from a new payment system with which the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, wanted to punish the governments that had adopted sanctions against Moscow as a result of the military offensive in Ukraine.
The procedure establishes that international clients must open special accounts in the Gazprombank, one for payments in foreign currency and another for conversations in rubles, from which the final payment to the Gazprom company would start.
The European Commission has concluded that abiding by this system does not imply violating EU sanctions, since the initial payment is made in euros or dollars.