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Possible shortages for the west
- The Ukraine crisis might lead to a new gas conflict - Russian president Vladimir Putin puts pressure on the EU. Moscow.
- Five years have passed since the last gas conflict between Russia and the Ukraine, which resulted in a lot of households in the EU having no gas supply.
- Since then not much changed about the initial situation.
- An alternative to Russian gas and the transit route through the Ukraine is not in sight.
- In 2013, about 86 billions m³ of gas flowed through the Ukraine to the west.
- The Baltic states Finland and Bulgaria are completely dependant on Moscow's supplies.
- Concerned the EU now demands that Russia has to commit to the gas transit.
- Russian president Vladimir Putin however, wants the EU to commit to paying off the billions of debts the Ukraine has towards Russia.
- For that, he already threathens with possible dangers for the gas transit.
- „Of course we ensure to completely fullfill our obligations to our customers“, Putin says.
- „But the question is the supply through the Ukraine.“Russia emphasises that after all the neighbouring country already tapped the gas transit pipeline in the past.
- The Ukraine is being accused of thiefery which it always rejects.
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