Ukraine Says It Will Stop Transporting Some Russian Gas

Natural gas prices on the Dutch TTF exchange shot up Tuesday afternoon but settled back, ending up rising 3.4 percent on the day, to 97 euros per megawatt-hour.

So far, flows of Russian gas through Ukraine have been remarkably stable despite the war. But Ukrainian officials have repeatedly complained about the actions of the Russians and warned that they risked a shutdown of the gas transmission.

In a recent interview, Yuriy Vitrenko, the chief executive of Naftogaz, the Ukrainian national energy company that has the transit contract with Gazprom, Russia’s natural gas supplier, said the occupying Russian troops were in the habit of entering gas installations and trying to interfere with their operating systems.

“They want to control everything,” he said.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/business/ukraine-gas-russia-sokhranivka.html