cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23748634
Europe will receive the last Russian gas sent via Ukraine’s pipelines in the early hours of the new year as the continent braces for a plunge in temperatures that could hasten the drain on gas reserves.
The Russian state energy company, Gazprom, is expected to cut off its exports to Europe through Ukraine’s pipelines on New Year’s Day after a gas transit deal struck between the countries five years ago comes to an end overnight.
In the absence of an 11th-hour deal, the halt will mark a historic shift after the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour in early 2022. Russia was once the continent’s biggest supplier of gas but it has lost almost all of its EU customers since the war began, as buyers across central Europe have turned to the US, Norway and Qatar for their supplies.
We Europeans need to be DEEPLY ashamed this is the reason to finally cut the supply.
Following these 2022 cuts, only Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia and Slovakia continued to receive Russian gas via Ukraine in 2023 (Bulgaria and Romania to a lesser extent, on spot markets). Of these countries, Austria and Slovakia imported the largest share of these volumes, and for which these imports via Ukraine represent the largest share of their demand
(Italy wtf?)
I think it’s just Slovakia and Moldova impacted the most, everyone else appears to have have healthy reserves and alternate supplies.
