Posted by Amarynth
Kiev cites ‘force majeure’ in Lugansk to halt third of gas flow to Europe, while Gazprom says there have been no issues that would justify the halt.
Russian gas conglomerate Gazprom has received no confirmation of force majeure or any obstacles to continued transit of gas through a junction in Lugansk, the company said on Tuesday, after Ukraine’s operator OGTSU announced it would halt further deliveries starting May 11, due to the presence of “Russian occupiers.”
https://t.me/EurasianChoice/13335
RT is still reporting, but here it is: https://www.rt.com/russia/555265-gazprom-gas-ukraine-europe/
Be aware this is up to the minute, so details may change. (But is it too early to say … the Ukraine is sanctioning Europe?)
https://www.rt.com/business/555224-berlin-russian-gas-emergency-plan/
EU state working on emergency plan for Russian gas halt – media
Germany has no luck with Qatar LNG contracts, and plans to nationalize gas assets.
Nationalize gas assets with no gas? Complete theater!
Apparently Germany is worried if these assets go bankrupt because of EU sanction pranks, China will buy them for pennies on the dollar.
So hold on to defunct empty pipelines because China?
This insanity seems to run its course – quarantine the EU sicko’s immediately!
Justify tne need of delivery of US gas via ship thru the blocked black sea ports.
And hence condemn the ruskies for the gas ‘cut off’?
This is hysterical.
Because it highlights—indeed, almost illustrates—Ukraine’s longtime gas antics that long predate the Maidan.
Ukraine has always been a “gas spoiler.” Plays bad boy on the gas playground.
Now we see it again.
Ukraine simply is not a trustworthy locale for any major transnational pipeline.
Haha, yet I am sure this will be described as yet another example how Russia has abused its customers constantly for the last fourth years. This is no longer clown world but it is getting very serious. Ukies will tear down whole Europe, as they are completely unhinged.
How can dirt poor Ukies terrorize EU?
It is global feudal mafia with head in UK/US duopoly. Zombified Ukies are just tools.
Parasites lost Asia, and must quickly find another big fat host to survive. EU is bound to be sucked dry. It was obvious what will happen since Brexit ruse.
Haha, yet I am sure this will be described as yet another example of how Russia has abused its honest and reliable customers constantly for the last fourty years. This is no longer clown world but it is getting very serious. Ukies will tear down whole Europe, as they are completely unhinged.
And this is the Ukraine that EU is prepared (?) to admit. Perhaps Macaroni’s statement a few days ago about decades before ukie will be admitted triggered the poor little bastards. The entire west has turned into spoiled entitled children.
My guess is this is in retaliation for the EU saying that it would be a cold day in hell before Ukraine would be allowed to join the EU, or words to that effect.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/macron-bluntly-admits-ukraines-eu-bid-likely-take-several-decades-would-lower-standards
Here is a link to the NG pipelines and interconnections which will allow you to see the amount of gas transit on an ongoing basis.
https://transparency.entsog.eu/#/map?loadBalancingZones=false
Looks like the only gas to Europe flowing is through the Turkstream and across the Baltic to Germany. Some getting through to Slovakia but none through Poland or Hungary. I guess Zelenskyy must have already cut Orban off as he doesn’t play nice.
The Ukrainian deputy foreign minister was threatening the EU for the case that the EU does not give Ukraine member candidate status. So that’s why. North Stream 2 might soon be operational …
Voenkor Kitten Z
Brief summary for 05/10/2022
There have been no significant changes at the front over the past day.
1. The enemy advanced near the settlement. Old Saltov near Kharkov, but those villages that are called in the reports of Kyiv, ours left for another 2-3 days, stepping back. N.p. Lipcy is holding the RF Armed Forces.
2. In Mariupol and Gulyaipol – no change. Allied forces are blocking enemy positions in the area of the Azovstal plant. According to reports from the enemy, there were no civilians left in the bunkers of the plant. On the territory of the plant, the remnants of the Azov formations, the 36th Marine Corps of the Navy, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the 12th brigade and the Border Service continue to resist. Approximately about 1 thousand people. About 600 wounded.
3. Ugledar and Marinka – no change.
4. In the Slavic direction, fighting continues near Krasny Liman.
5. Fighting in Belogorovka. The enemy declares the destruction of the crossing of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation through the Seversky Donets and counterattacks.
6. Allied forces are fighting their way to Lisichansk from the south. There are no reports of progress in this direction yet.
7. On the Nikolaev/Odessa direction, no changes – the Russian Aerospace Forces, MLRS, cannon artillery of the RF Armed Forces are actively working.
Does the EU not realize that the gas that goes through Ukraine is actually from Russia. Any time Russia wants they can cut the gas off from inside Russia. This is proof to the EU that Russia was right about the need for Nord Stream 2. It seems to me that this might be good for Russia. There is space left in the other pipelines to increase flow there, and the price of gas is going up. Ukraine will receive less in transit fees. And if they cut the rest of the gas through Ukraine. The EU would be forced to open Nord Stream 2,or start to shut down their economies. Doesn’t really sound bad to me.
We have a “Winner”! (Golf Clap)
Blackmail guised as a Victimization Racket. Kolomoiskyy and his Vassal Zelenskyy sure know how to Milk and Pillage All Others through a Disaster of their making. Funny thing is, EU+NATO+Anglo-Murican Vassals are too Consumed by their Mass Psychoses. Demagoguery at Work.
Looked at the link, forgot I was censored and can’t watch or read RT.
That’s Western style freedumb and demockery for you.
From the outside it seems like a move by Western Ukraine to tug at Europe for added help. Ukraine may feel as if Europe is not helping enough(??) like the US is. The Natural Gas math is against the Europeans. The Russian pipeline delivers in a gaseous state. Tankers deliver in a liquid state. While a liquid state makes natural gas concentrated so when turned back into a gas it creates significantly more volume. But to liquify natural gas it must be cooled to incredibly low temps and shipped-stored that way (several hundred degrees cooled). This adds costly infrastructure and processing time. The entire process is to get the liquid natural gas to a place it can be brought back into a gas state and sent out via local pipelines. Ultimately there is no easy way out for Europe on Natural Gas. Much greater port facilities , tankers, liquifying and storage, pipelines are needed to make up the deficit. But as some didn’t know, Russian gas, some of it, flows in pipelines through Ukraine. So Ukraine has the power to semi-choke Europe of Natural Gas. Europe will have reserves but the reserves will rather quickly deplete without continued volume flow.
And for those who don’t know, be sure of this. Russian Natural Gas exports cannot be made up. The big LNG exporters are Qatar and the US. They cannot make up the difference if Russian Natural gas is cut and that is not counting the facilities needed as mentioned above. And due to Natural gas being a cleaner fuel, Natural Gas usage was expected to continue to rise.
‘the Ukraine is sanctioning Europe?’ – nope, the US is sanctioning europe. The US is not pleased that the EU oil embargo on Russia has not been accepted yet. They are not happy that europe is not sending even more weapons to Ukraine.
Then it’s time to open the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Europe needs the gas. Russia can provide it.
Can feel a blackmail coming on here. You don’t give me what I want (financial, weapons etc.) then you don’t get your gas.
You have to appreciate the irony, Annalena Baerbock just went to Ukraine and promised them everything that their heart’s desire and this is how they are repaid.
How stupid are the Germans? How stupid are they? It is unbelievable.
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873): “I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally conservative.”
So the Ukraine is now holding EU hostage and attempting to use EU citizens as human shields. Russia doesn’t need to cut off EU natural gas in retaliation for this war and sanctions. Bandera Nazis will do this for them. Hardly surprising as the lies they tell themselves all any treachery.
Ernest Hemingway: “Anyone who loves freedom owes such a debt to the Red Army that it can never be repaid.”
The madness rises to new levels. Hides the ongoing theft of billions of euros/dollars/pounds. Where are these thieves going to retreat to? 700 million euro yachts at sea? Patagonia? New Zealand? Greenland? Ukraine tunnels?
I would appreciate someone who knows how the stolen wealth is going to accessed giving a talk.
Why are not many MNM carrying this force majeure story so far? Their silence is deafening.
Unfortunately, I cannot read the RT article as the ‘freedom and democracy’ brigade in my country (the UK) appear to have been blocking the RT website again for the past couple of days. Don’t you just love their take on ‘free speech’?
Putin thinks it’s “weak” to do that; that’s why he doesn’t do it to CNN.
Well, I think it was weak and against free speech to ban the word “war”:
“CNN says it will step broadcasting within Russia after the country’s national parliament, the Duma, passed a new law Friday that will make it a criminal act to call the war in Ukraine a war.”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/cnn-stops-broadcasting-in-russia-1235104711/?msclkid=57036e31d10711ec8eccbe703b4c1d1c
And Europe thinks Zelensky is some kind of hero??
Diplomatic relations with Kiev should be ended immediately and all refugees turned back at the borders of any nation except Poland.
Poland can harbour the entire burden of Ukrainian refugees, as it has the gas to warm them next winter.
This is pure blackmail of the EU to force it to become party to the war. Typical Ukrainian “diplomacy”, when the Ukrainians are not stealing gas from the transit system, they are stopping the delivery completely of one section of the system. I suspect that this operation was cooked up in either London or Fashington.
I am more curious to see how the EU is going to respond.
Haha. We can read this move a mile away. Ukraine is trying to blackmail (primarily) Germany – into fast tracking Ukraine’s EU future selection status. The Kiev Regime is increasingly, by the day, becoming a more demanding and petulant child, throwing public tantrums and making ever greater demands of its ‘partners’. Kiev wants an EU status and access to greater EU subsidies and money flows. Of course, Kiev is enabled in this behavior by its US Kiev Consulate handlers, who wants to keep Ukraine afloat, but also sees no problems with shipwrecking the EU economy (read: the German industrial competitors) if US companies can pick up the future international market slack that arises as a result. For current US geo-strategists, the present Ukrainian situation, is perceived as opportunity to US to strike two birds with one stone – maintaining an ongoing proxy war against Russia (who are deemed a non US compliant political and economic competitor), and maintaining debilitating and artificially imposed restrictions on key EU economies (who are deemed mostly politically US compliant, but also a major international economic competitor).
In short, the US strategists are of the opinion they can maximize Ukraine as a wrecking ball against both Russia AND the EU economic block. Their chosen vassal in Kiev, Zelensky is all too willing to throw Ukraine into this dual role.
I have been reading a lot about Ukraine cutting off the Gas to Europe and that that decision was made by Washington. FWIW I don’t think this is the case for a number of reasons. I believe this is Zelensky’s decision, purely his. The UAF are losing badly in Donbass with a major breakthrough by Russia. His troops are failing horribly at the cost of a lot of life so he knows the chances of mounting any serious resistance to the RF Army is limited. He has been calling for weeks for NATO to invade Russia if you like and to commit troops to Ukraine, to no avail. The problem now is, the USA, Canada, UK and EU countries have all but deified Zelensky to the point of denying it is a Nazi Government and the truth about the corruption within it and building him up to be a hero of monumental stature, that they cannot now walk back on that and he knows that. After Scholz’s ridiculous behaviour and comments on 9th May 2022 he cannot now go to Russia and ask them to restart Nordstream 2. In Zelensky, they have created a monster with a monstrous ego who now believes he runs the world and has the power to do so. Well, when the RF complete their actions in the Donbass I suspect this pipe will be taken under the ownership of Gazprom (RF) since it is a trend in the West now to seize assets. Well, since they have got themselves into a situation from which they cannot now back down or walk back with the RF what are the collective West going to do now? Any Politicians who have stature and are serious minded in their task will start negotiations with the RF. But they won’t. I’m curious now as to how this is going to progress. For me, the difference in dealing with President Putin and Zelensky is the former is a serious minded Statesman who understands negotiation, international relations and diplomacy and who has deep levels of personal integrity leading to sound and strong decision making. The latter. Well, he is an idiotic television comedian who is totally unfit for office and who has no expertise or experience to hold the post he has. He is a 2 bit television comedian whose Cabinet comprises of friends from Television. He has no understanding of politics and is a shallow, thieving, liar. What are they going to do with him?
It is now more than apparent that since at least 1999 – with events in rump Yugoslavia – the US Neo-Cons who run US foreign policy, and thus NATO, have always wanted a showdown fight with Russia. Not necessarily directly, but along the lines of the proxy war in Ukraine we are seeing unfold now. Hence, for decades the US was openly and aggressively pushing at Russia’s sphere of influence, and international interests, until the ultimate point, with Ukraine, where the Russian Federation had to accept a binary choice, either submission or fight back. This was a binary situation by US foreign policy design. Because, the US Neo-Cons wholly adopted all that 1992 Fukuyama BS about the End of History, and the result was the Neo-Con’s Project for a New American Century. One aimed at complete global hegemony, and systematically removing all serious international competitors. They really believe they can achieve it, through the systematic and maximized use of the US military, and aggression, and are essentially the Modern Zealots over it. Meaning, they will pursue this goal whatever the cost, be it incurring unsustainable US military based debt, the complete destruction of Ukraine, or the partial destruction of the EU economy, they don’t care, as long as they move toward their end goals (hence, Victoria Nuland’s infamous remark, prior to launching the CIA funded Maiden coup, “…fuck the EU”).
Kiev has perhaps find a way to punish Hungary? This would be interesting to look which is the main pipeline passing through Ukraine connects with Hungary. Can add Slovenia.
I found this very good animated SitRep w/ English subtitles. Worth watching (Uky advance in Kharkov worries me)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1524275152879562752
Some More SitRep (which ties into the above video):
https://voenhronika.ru/
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is in despair – the RUSSIAN ARMY continues to advance! Fresh videos of battles and reports from the front – the morning of May 11 (22 videos)
The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to expand the zone of control north of Kharkov. An offensive is being prepared on Cossack Lopan and Tsupovka, battles are going on in Liptsy and Rubizhnoye. At the same time, a counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine against Izyum is being prepared. It is planned to force the arm and capture Rudnevo and Ivanovka. To the west of Yelizavetovka and Razdolie, tanks and reinforcements from the territorial defense were transferred to break through the front.
By any means, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is trying to stabilize the situation on the eastern front, since the advance of the Russian army has not yet been stopped. The main task of the Ukrainian units in this direction is to divert the forces of the RF Armed Forces on the Izyum and Liman fronts. It is important for Bankovaya to keep Severodonetsk, because along with the fall of this city, there will be a powerful loss in the information war at the same time.
This is another I’ll conceived tactic from midwits in DC. They’re trying to force Russia to shut off the gas in response to it being stolen so they can spin propaganda and blame it on Putin.
Their problem is Russia gets money either way and more gas isn’t going to save Ukraine from being ground to dust.
Russia would only need to shut down gas if the EU stops paying in response and at that point it’ll be clear to all who’s at fault.
The more i see these tactics the more I’m convinced of the fact that a certain tribe is in charge. the attempts at deplatforming and the attempts to redefine reality through rhetoric alone are clear indicatiors.
You know who the enemy is by how they fight.