The Kremlin has rejected any suggestion that Russia is using oil and gas as a weapon of political pressure.
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The Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream has suspended today and until the next day 21 the supply of gas to Germany for “maintenance”, according to the infrastructure operator Nord Stream AG.
Since last June, the gas pipeline, laid on the bottom of the Baltic Sea, has been operating at 40% of its capacity due, according to Russia, to the fact that Canada, due to the sanctions that weigh on Moscow for its “special military operation” in Ukraine, has not returned some turbines that were under repair and that are needed for pumping the fuel.
Last year, maintenance work on the Nord Stream was carried out between July 13 and 23.
Russia announced last June two consecutive reductions in gas supplies through the Nord Stream, first one of 40% and then another of 33%, which the Russian gas giant Gazprom justified with problems with the technical reviews of the turbines. the German company Siemens that are used in pumping stations.
The Kremlin has rejected any suggestion that Russia is using oil and gas as a weapon of political pressure.
“No one has invented any kind of new works (on the Nord Stream gas pipeline). If the turbines return after their repair, this will allow the volume of supply to be increased,” said the spokesman for the Russian Presidency, Dmitri Peskov, referring to the turbines. held in Canada.
Source: Eitb
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