The Russian company Gazprom announced that “exports to non-CIS countries (not including the Commonwealth of Independent States) amounted to 61 bcm between January and May 2022, down 27.6 percent (23 bcm). ) compared to the same period in 2021”, due to the sanctions he was subjected to as a result of the war with Ukraine.

Yesterday at a two-day special summit in the Belgian capital Brussels, EU leaders reached a political agreement on the bloc’s sixth round of sanctions against Russia.

Under the agreement, EU countries will cut 90 percent of Russia’s oil imports by the end of the year, but will exempt pipeline crude oil as a major concession to Hungary.

The Russian company also cut off deliveries to Bulgaria, Poland, Finland and the Netherlands, as well as German and Danish companies Shell Energy and Danish Ørsted after it failed to pay its ruble contributions.