Russia-Ukraine War
Russia-Ukraine War
Russia-Ukraine War
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A transnational pipe closed on Wednesday after kyiv refused to renew an agreement before the war that allowed the transit of Russian fuel through its territory.
By Marc Santoraandrew Higgins and Jenny Gross
Marc Santora reported that Kiev, Ukraine, Andrew Higgins of Warsaw and Jenny Gross of Brussels.
The flow of natural gas through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe was cut off early Wednesday after Ukraine refused to renew an agreement that allowed for the transit of Russian gas through its territory.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine had warned for months that he would not renew the prewar contract, which expired at midnight on Dec. 31, because of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Kiev’s resolve to suspend fuel through a pipeline that had carried Soviet fuel and then Russian fuel to Europe for decades is a component of a broader crusade across Ukraine and its Western allies to undermine Moscow’s ability to fund its war effort and restrict the Kremlin’s ability. Use power as leverage in Europe.
“This is a historic event,” Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Gushchenko said in a statement. “Russia loses markets, it will go through monetary losses. “
The Ukrainian pipe, built in the Soviet era to send Siberian fuel to European markets, is the last primary fuel hall in Europe after the sabotage in 2022 of the North Pipe Current to Germany, can -it can -it can through Ukraine and The closure of an address through Belarus in Poland.
The controlled power giant through the Kremlin, Gazprom, published an early Wednesday confirming that it no longer sent fuel through the pipe. President Vladimir V. Putin reported in a press convention on December 19 that the agreement would not extend. “We will survive, Gazprom will survive,” he said.
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