The Russian energy giant Gazprom has turned off the gas supply to the Baltic EU country Latvia. The energy giant announced on Saturday that the company had stopped deliveries because the conditions for withdrawing gas had been violated. The state-owned company did not give details of the violations.
Curiously, according to the Reuters news agency, Latvia is currently not a Gazprom customer. A spokesman for Latvian utility Gaze said the gas Latvia is buying does not come from Russia.
Russia had recently halted gas supplies to several EU countries, including Poland and Bulgaria, because they refused to pay in rubles. Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin introduced this new regulation in response to EU sanctions against Russia. Payments were usually made in euros or dollars.
The government in Latvia recently announced that it wanted to completely stop importing Russian gas from January 2023. This is primarily seen as a reaction to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. Last year, Latvia still bought about 90 percent of its gas from Russia.
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