Russia resumed pumping natural gas via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Europe earlier on Thursday after a 10-day outage
, allaying Europe’s immediate winter supply fears after President Vladimir Putin had warned that flows could be cut further or stopped.
Canada, which had initially withheld the turbine because of sanctions against Moscow over Ukraine, decided to return the equipment, serviced by Siemens Energy, back to Russia. Amid concerns in Europe that Russia might further restrict gas supplies to the continent, Peskov referred to previous Putin comments that Gazprom had always fulfilled its obligations to clients and would continue to do so.
“Putin has quite comprehensively explained, that it’s wrong to talk about any pressure, any blackmail. This is an absolutely wrong statement and we categorically deny it,” Peskov said.
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