Natural gas is abundant and affordable, primarily used for power generation and heating. The EU's shift from Russian gas due to the Ukraine conflict affects market supply and price dynamics. Top ...

A renegade part of Moldova once boasted it would become a Russian-speaking Switzerland. Now without gas, its leader assured residents, “We will not allow a societal collapse.” A renegade part ...

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A victory hailed as “one of Moscow’s biggest defeats” by Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, was not won on the battlefield. This week Ukraine closed off the last route allowing ...

A gas worker walks between pipes in a compressor and distribution station of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline, some 30 km (19 miles) from the south western Russian city of Kursk, January 4, ...

The price of the Dutch TTF, the benchmark European natural gas climbed by more than 4% to €51 per megawatt-hour, its highest level since October 2023, before easing a little, on the first ...

European gas prices reached a 15-month high on Thursday after Ukraine blocked the transit of Russian gas across its territory into the European Union. The Russian state-run firm Gazprom is set to ...

Russian gas exports via Ukraine came to a halt on January 1 after Kyiv refused to renew a transit deal, hailing this as "Russia's biggest defeat." But some EU countries are scrambling to meet ...

Ending the transit of Russian natural gas through Ukraine has dealt Moscow a significant blow in its attempts to use energy as a weapon, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. Ukraine's head of ...

The Soviet-era pipeline enters Ukraine near the Russian village of Sudzha, currently occupied by Ukrainian forces who have staged an incursion into areas of Russia's Kursk region [Reuters] ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link A European region is grappling with freezing temperatures in winter after Russian natural gas stopped flowing to Europe via Ukraine. On Monday ...

Ukraine has made good on its promise to halt the transport of Russian gas to Europe through its territory after a key deal with Moscow expired on Wednesday. Ukraine’s refusal to renew the ...