According to ex-President Dmitry Medvedev, Russia will stop gas supplies to Europe if the EU imposes a price cap on Russian gas.
"There will simply be no Russian gas in Europe," writes the deputy chief of the Russian Security Council in the messaging app Telegram. He is reacting to statements by EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen. CSU in Murnau, Bavaria, said: "I am firmly convinced that it is now time for a price cap on Russian pipeline gas to Europe."
Meanwhile, the Kremlin has also announced another disruption to gas supplies through Nord Stream 1.
There are no technical reserves, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday in Moscow, according to the Interfax news agency.
"Only one turbine is running." The energy giant Gazprom is not to blame for the fact that the reliability of the line through the Baltic Sea is endangered.
Earlier, Peskov claimed Gazprom could meet its commitments, but Europe imposed "legal and technical obstacles" on the company over sanctions related to the Ukraine war.
He spoke of a crisis scenario.
Gazprom stopped the flow of gas for three days, citing maintenance work at a compressor station.
The federal government considers this to be a pretext.
Gas is scheduled to flow again from Saturday morning.
According to the Russian state-owned company, the last remaining turbine in the compressor station has to be serviced every 1000 working hours.
The next stop should therefore be in mid-October.