The Russian gas company Gazprom further cuts supplies through the Baltic Sea pipeline Nord Stream 1.
From July 27 (Wednesday) at 6 a.m., 20 percent or 33 million cubic meters of gas would flow through the most important supply pipeline to Germany every day, the company announced on Monday.
The reason was the repair of another turbine, it said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened last week that there could be a further cut in gas supplies via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline around July 26.
He had referred to turbines used by the Russian energy company.
According to this, a throttling is possible if a turbine repaired in Canada is not available again in time.
Another turbine should therefore be sent around July 26 for repairs.
Gas deliveries via the currently most important connection to Germany for Russian natural gas were only resumed on Thursday after a ten-day routine maintenance.
As early as June, Gazprom had reduced deliveries via the pipeline to 40 percent of maximum capacity and referred to the turbine being sent to Canada for repairs.
The federal government considers this to be a pretext.
German government officials warned, however, after the maintenance work had been completed in the meantime, that it could not be assumed with certainty that the Kremlin would continue to pump gas through the pipeline to Germany.