According to the company’s statement on the messaging service Telegram, it is about Latvia allegedly violating the agreement.
“Today, Gazprom has stopped gas deliveries to Latvia due to violations of the terms,” the company writes.
On Wednesday, Gazprom throttled the gas flow to Europe down to 20 percent of the capacity in Nord Stream 1. According to the EU, it is about Russia using the gas as a way to punish the EU for the extensive sanctions against Russia due to the war in Ukraine.
Russia, for its part, claims that the limited flow is due to one of the two turbines not being fully operational due to an engine problem.
This week, the EU countries also agreed on a voluntary reduction in gas use of 15 percent to reduce dependence on Russian gas. The EU’s decision was partly a response to Gazprom’s announcement to drastically reduce supplies.