Bloomberg: Cut off the supply or use rubles to pay Russia.

(Moscow Composite Electric) Russia and the West "Energy War" continued. On Wednesday, two European companies were cut off by Russia's natural gas supply because they did not pay for rubles.It is expected that Russia will not break the supply of more European buyers, which alleviates the concerns of the exterior of the European energy crisis.

Gazprom (Gazprom, referred to as Russia) announced on Tuesday that it has suspended natural gas from Denmark Woxu Energy Company (ORSted) and Shell Energy EUROPE from Wednesday.This will affect the supply of natural gas in Denmark and Germany.

Russia said that the two companies did not pay the costs provided by the natural gas provided from April 1 and said they did not intend to pay with rubles, so they cut off the supply.According to the order of Russian President Putin, starting from April 1, Russia's "unfriendly" countries and regions supply natural gas to use rubles to settle.

Earlier, Russia has stopped supplying energy for Poland, Bulgaria and Finland.On Tuesday, Russia also stopped supplying gas to the Dutch Gastera Energy Corporation.

Denmark Prime Minister Frezrikson posted on Instagram to criticize: "Putin decided to cut off the supply of natural gas for Denmark, which is completely unacceptable at all."

Mads Nipper, CEO of Wo Xu Energy, said: "We insist on refusing to pay with ruble and have been preparing for this situation.Dependence of natural gas. "

Before the outbreak of the Russian and Ukraine conflict, 40%of the EU's natural gas supply relied on Russia.The European Commission said recently that this ratio has dropped to about 26%, hoping to further drop to 13%by the end of the year.

Wednesday at the time of whether Denmark joined the European common defense mechanism to hold a referendum.Affected by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Denmark, which had rejected deepening integration with the European Union in the past, is closer to the European Union.

According to sources who are familiar with the Russian Qi contract by Bloomberg, because EU buyers have either paid in accordance with the new conditions or they have been cut off, no more buyers will "get angry".Inspired by this news, the price of natural gas in Europe fell back on Wednesday.

Russia has cut off about 20 billion cubic meters of natural gas supply so far, accounting for about 15%of European imports.Researcher Jonathan Stern, Oxford Energy Research Institute, pointed out that most of the buyers who were broken off were small, or they originally intended to terminate contracts this year."The decisions of these buyers (not using rubles) have not affected most of Russia's natural gas exported to Europe according to long -term contracts."