Certain Central European countries continue to report the reduction in gas supplies from Russia on the background of tensions in relations between Moscow and Kiev.
Thus, the Austrian energy regulator E-Control said Friday the decreasing supply of natural gas amounted to 25%, which was the major indicator for Austria now, writes the wall Street Journal. At the same time in E-Control stressed that already in the first day of the weekend was the growth of gas supply, and reduction decreased to 20%. However, the norm for this time of year is a reduction of 10-15%. Before September 12 Slovakia said about the reduction in gas supplies from Russia through Ukraine. This Tuesday, September 16, Slovak gas importer SPP (Slovensky plynarensky priemysel) said on reducing Russian gas supplies by 25%. The Minister of industry of the Slovak Republic Pavol Pavlis said that Gazprom explained the failure of applications Slovakia for the production and delivery of natural gas from Russia for technical reasons. Remember, June 16 from 10. 00 GMT Gazprom has entered the mode of payment for the supply and stop supplying gas to Ukraine. The pipeline is only intended for transit to the European Union blue fuel in the amount of 185 million cubic meters per day.

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