President Emmanuel Macron has delivered on his promise to supply Kiev with the French variant of Storm Shadow missile, according to footage by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry in which President Vladimir Zelensky is seen posing for a photo op with a rocket marked as SCALP-EG. Macron initially announced his decision …
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While cherishing a strong ambition to rid themselves of their reliance on Russian energy supplies, EU member states are slow to acknowledge that they are inevitably becoming heavily dependent on the US, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday. By becoming so reliant on energy imports from the US, Brussels …
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Moscow would halt its gas supplies to the European Union altogether should the bloc impose a price cap on Russian fossil fuel, Dmitry Medvedev, who served as the country’s president from 2008 to 2012 and is currently the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, has warned. On Friday, Medvedev posted …
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French authorities are preparing for a complete suspension of gas supplies from Russia, according to the country’s Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, who sees such a full shutdown as the “most likely scenario.” “I think that a total cutoff of Russian gas supplies is a real possibility … and we …
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Russia’s Nord Stream natural gas pipeline to Germany will shut down for 10 days for annual maintenance, the company in charge of the project confirmed on Friday. Both strings of the pipeline will halt operations for repair works from July 11 to July 21. The operator added that the shutdown …
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The United States is involved in “extremely active” discussions with European countries aimed at limiting the revenues Russia can generate from selling oil without interrupting supplies, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday, according to Reuters. Yellen reportedly told the Senate Finance Committee that US officials were keen to …
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The Netherlands has become the fourth country to stop receiving Russian natural gas, following its decision not to pay for deliveries in rubles. Russia’s energy giant Gazprom announced on Tuesday that it had “completely stopped gas supplies” to the Dutch state energy wholesaler GasTerra. “As of the end of the …
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Warsaw has stopped free fuel supplies to Ukraine, the Polish minister of climate and environment said in an interview with the BiznesAlert website on Monday. “At the beginning of the war and after the bombing of the refinery, we sent fuel free of charge. Currently, these are commercial supplies from …
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Russian energy major Gazprom Export announced on Monday that it will suspend gas supplies to Dutch trader GasTerra from May 31 due to non-payment for deliveries in April and its refusal to pay in rubles. “As of the end of the business day on May 30 (the payment deadline stipulated …
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The Polish government has announced it is terminating imports of Russian natural gas without waiting for the expiry of the current contract at the end of 2022. Along with Bulgaria and Finland, Warsaw has refused to accept Russia’s new ruble-based payment mechanism introduced in late March. “After 30 years, it …
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