The Eu Is In A Critical Situation Regarding Russia S Demands To Pay Rubles For Gas Ukraine
Kadri Simson, the European Commissioner for Energy, said on Monday that the Kremlin’s demands had to be rejected despite the risk of a power outage at a time when the deficit could not be met. Last week, Gazprom halted gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria and threatened to supply others if they followed Warsaw and Sofia, which do not pay for fuel in Russian currency. After a meeting of EU energy ministers, Simpson said all energy ministers had agreed that the payment in rubles through the mechanism set out by Russia would violate sanctions imposed by the bloc after the Russian invasion of Ukraine....