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Since July 11, Russian gas supplies via the Nord Stream, the main gas export route from Russia to Europe, have been temporarily stopped for 10 days due to scheduled annual maintenance on the pipeline. The Russian side announced the repair works in advance. LINK
The gas pipeline was stopped until July 21 to carry out scheduled repairs.
During the repairs on the Nord Stream, the only transit line from Russia to Western and Central Europe lies through Ukraine where Gazprom also faced some obstacles.
Ukraine claimed that it stopped gas transit to Europe through the Sokhranovka station in May. The station is located in the Luhansk People’s Republic and Kiev allegedly could not control it.
Today Gazprom supplies gas to Europe through Ukrainian Sudzha gas measuring station after the application for pumping through Sokhranovka was rejected by the Ukrainian side. Gazprom supplies 39.4 million cubic meters of gaz per day. The amount was confirmed by Ukraine.
Gazprom had already temporarily reduced the volume of gas supplies via the Nord Stream by 40% in mid-June as Siemens was unable to return gas pumping units from repair in a timely manner from Canada. The delay was due to anti-Russian sanctions. Canada and Germany began to look for ways to solve the problem. On July 9, Canada announced that it had decided to make an exception in the sanctions for turbines for the Nord Stream gas pipeline at the request of Germany.
The Kiev regime playing in the interests of the US tries its best to interrupt the gaz transit from Russia to Europe. As a result, by the end of June, the United States surpassed Russia in terms of gas exports to Europe for the first time.
