The Latest Breaking News from Gazprom

Politicians wait to see whether Russia switches back on Nord Stream 1 gas supply to Europe

Russia is using its dominance of the European oil and gas market, where it accounts for 40% of EU gas consumption, to attempt to reduce support for Ukraine.

Russia halted gas supplies via a major pipeline to Europe on Wednesday, intensifying an economic battle between Moscow and Brussels and raising the prospects of recession and energy rationing in some of the region's richest countries. The outage for maintenance on Nord Stream 1 means that no gas will flow…

Russia’s Gazprom has stopped the flow of natural gas through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe as it had announced in advance

Shutdown at short notice by state-owned Gazprom disrupts European efforts to stockpile for winter

European Union foreign ministers agreed on Wednesday to fully suspend a visa facilitation agreement with Russia, making it harder for Russian citizens to enter the EU but falling short of an outright visa ban. The move comes as a team of IAEA nuclear inspectors arrived in the southern Ukrainian city…

European Commission says it is working ‘flat out’ on emergency intervention and on longer-term structural reform

France has accused Russia of using energy supplies as "a weapon of war" after Russian gas giant Gazprom reduced deliveries to French energy utility Engie.

Nothing stands on the way of Russian gas exports to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline apart from technological problems caused by Western sanctions, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, a day before another planned maintenance shutdown. Russian energy giant Gazprom has announced it will shut the pipeline…