“Since May 1, there has really been an explosive growth in the supply of Russian pipeline gas to the EU countries relative to very low levels in April,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Belogoryev noted that gas imports to Finland increased by 4.8 times from April 30 to May 4.
“Supplies via the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline, which dropped to zero in the last days of April, returned to the level of early April in early May,” the expert emphasized.
Earlier, the head of the Shell concern, Ben van Beurden, said that European countries would not be able to completely replace Russian gas through alternative supplies.