Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned energy corporation, will stop transporting natural gas via the section of its Yamal-Europe pipeline that runs through Poland, says Sergey Kupriyanov, the company’s spokesman.
Russia imposed sanctions on the owner of the Polish part of the Yamal pipeline that carries Russian gas to Europe yesterday. "For Gazprom this means a ban on the use of a gas pipeline owned by EuRoPol GAZ to transport Russian gas through Poland," said Kupriyanov.
Similar restrictions are expected to apply to other companies on Russia’s sanctions list.
Kupriyanov also accused Poland of “repeatedly” violating Gazprom’s rights as a EuRoPol shareholder by sanctioning the Russian energy giant on 26 April.
Apart from EuRoPol GAZ, Gazprom Germania, UK’s Gazprom Global LNG, and the French Gazprom Marketing & Trading France SAS were among the companies included to Russia’s sanction list. From now on, they are banned from making deals with Russian businesses or importing Russian raw materials.
