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WARSAW: Poland’s state energy company on Thursday said it would not pay for Russian gas in rubles, becoming the latest to reject Kremlin demands amid unprecedented sanctions on Moscow over its war in Ukraine.

“We don’t see how we could,” PAP news agency quoted Pawel Majewski, head of state oil and gas company PGNiG, as saying.

“The contract... sets the means of payment. It does not allow one party to modify this according to its will.”

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said Russia would only accept payments in rubles for gas deliveries to “unfriendly countries” after Moscow was hit by an avalanche of sanctions over its war.

The economy minister of Germany, a country that imported 55 percent of its natural gas from Russia before the war, said the move was a breach of contract and that Berlin would discuss with European partners how to react.

The boss of Austria’s OMV energy company said that the contract signed did not allow for payments in rubles.

Poland’s current contract for Russian gas expires at the end of the year.

Warsaw is hoping to thereafter wean itself off Russian gas, replacing it with liquified gas shipments at ports and gas from Norway via a Baltic Sea pipeline.

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samir sardana Mar 25, 2022 06:18am
Poland demand is small compared to Germany EU is banking on Norway - which is running at full load If Putin cuts off Gas to Germany - Norway will NOT be able to offset it.dindooohindoo Suppose a Russian General gives an idea to PUTIN to target Norway - then WHAT WILL NATO DO ? That will take out the Nordic Gas.Or Putin sabotage the Nordic pipelines - which are under the SEA !
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