Russian concern " That is, the Netherlands will not receive the 2 billion cubic meters of gas contracted from Gazprom, which it undertook to supply from May 31 to September 30, the company said..

According to her, the reason is the refusal of the Netherlands to fulfill the requirement of the Russian Federation to pay for Russian gas in Russian rubles.. GasTerra also said that no disruptions to gas supply are expected in the kingdom, as gas has already been purchased from other suppliers.. GasTerra's contract with Gazprom expires on October 1.

Russia, in cutting off the gas supply to its European customers, resembles a girl from whom the groom ran away: “It was not he who left me - it was I who left him myself”.

Earlier, Russia unilaterally stopped gas supplies to a number of European countries after they refused to pay for Russian gas supplied to them in rubles.. The Kremlin made this demand a month after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.. The European Union and the G7 states rejected this demand.

In April, Gazprom stopped deliveries to Poland and Bulgaria, despite the existing contracts, in May - to Finland.

However, over time, the requirement to pay for gas in Russian rubles became, in a sense, a play on words: the buyer opens an account with Gazprombank, uploads euros into it, which are then converted into rubles. Many EU member states have joined this game.

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A certain game is also being played with the oil embargo against Russia, which has unleashed a full-scale unmotivated war against Ukraine. At the start of the EU summit, approximately the following scheme is submitted: you can’t buy oil from the Russian Federation by ships, but you can buy it through a pipe.

Speaking at the summit, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky noted:.

" This is their desire. This is the policy of the aggressor. There is no delay in it,"

He also warned that while the Russian Federation destroys our cities and communities in the Donbass, "