President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would resume gas supplies to Germany via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline once a key turbine was returned. He also rejected Western claims that Moscow used gas as a weapon.
At an economic forum in the eastern city of Vladivostok, Putin claimed that Germany and Western sanctions were to blame for the pipeline not being operational, and that Ukraine and Poland had decided on their own to shut down other gas routes to the country. Europe.
Europe is facing a winter fuel crisis and rising energy bills after Gazprom has fully suspended gas supplied through Nord Stream 1, claiming to have found an engine oil leak during maintenance work.
“Nord Steam 1 is practically closed now,” Putin said as he called Germany to return a turbine to the compressor station on the Portovaya pipeline that would allow Russia to resume pumping gas.
“There’s an oil leak there, it’s a potentially explosive situation, a fire hazard. The turbine cannot work. Give us a turbine and we’ll turn on Nord Stream 1 tomorrow. But they don’t give us anything,” said the Russian president.
Source: CNN Brasil
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