Russia’s state gas company has announced the “complete suspension” of natural gas deliveries to Poland through a major pipeline, its Polish counterpart said on Tuesday, in an escalation of the economic conflict stemming from the war in Ukraine.
Poland gets more than 45 percent of its natural gas from Russia, and cutting off that supply could seriously wound Poland’s ability to heat homes and run businesses. Unlike some of its neighbors, Poland burns coal, not gas, for most of its electricity, so it is less vulnerable on that front.
Since the Russian invasion on Feb. 24, the United States and its allies have imposed increasingly stringent economic sanctions on Russia, badly damaging the Russian economy. For the European Union, the toughest part of that campaign has been trying to wean itself off Russian fossil fuels, Moscow’s main source of foreign revenue. Read more
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