Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said “Russian President Vladimir Putin’s gas war against Europe is a direct continuation of his war with Ukraine,” adding that “Putin will use Europe’s dependence on Russia to destroy normal life.” Every European family”, and stressed that “there is no other way but to resolutely respond and get rid of any European dependence on Russia”.

Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that “we have heard new threats regarding gas supplies to Europe. This is an open gas war that Russia is waging against a united Europe,” stressing that sanctions are against Russia.

Yesterday, Gazprom announced that it would reduce the daily volume of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline to Germany as of Wednesday to 33 million cubic meters, or about 20 percent, and attributed the reduction to the repair of a gas turbine.

Commenting on the decision, the German government confirmed that “there are no technical reasons for reducing the flow of Russian gas through the Nord Stream gas pipeline.”

It is noteworthy that on July 11, Russia stopped gas supplies to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline for a period of ten days to carry out maintenance work on the turbine.