The Finnish government and companies in the country are preparing to cut off gas supplies from Russia in May 2022.
The Russian company “Gazprom” announced that payment in rubles is a condition for the continuation of gas supplies.
About this writes the publication Helsingin Sanomat, according to EN.
Gazprom has asked the Finnish state gas company Gasum to respond to the demands by May 20.
According to EU sources, the term is the same for many other EU countries.
It is possible that on May 21 Russian gas supplies to Finland and most of Europe will be cut off. According to official estimates, Finland’s existing gas infrastructure will not be enough to replace Russian gas.
Gas plays a much smaller role in Finland’s energy mix. Last year, gas accounted for only about 5% of energy consumption.
Basically, problems are expected for the industry, where gas is used not as a source of energy, but as a raw material for technological processes. Two-thirds of the gas in Finland is used by industry, including the chemical and forestry industries.
Recall that immediately after the announcement of Putin’s war on Ukraine, Finland signed a petition for joining NATO . Although back in January, Helsinki announced that they did not plan to join NATO . Deputy Chairman of the International Committee of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Vladimir Dzhabarov said that Finland’s entry into NATO would provoke Russia to take retaliatory measures .
After that, the movement of heavy weapons was noticed on the territory of Russia towards the border with Finland. Most likely, this is the K-300P “Bastion-P” mobile coastal defense system, designed to destroy surface ships.
In addition, Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council and close associate of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, said that Moscow would deploy nuclear weapons and hypersonic missiles in Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave in the center of Europe, if Finland joined NATO.
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