And it is not the Russians.<\/p>\n
So we have an “agreement” 2 days ago, and Russia puts a little gas into the system<\/a>, in order to verify that the Ukrainians are not tapping the gas going to Europe, and they get the following:<\/p>\n Ukraine’s state energy firm said it could not ship the gas without cutting off several of its own regions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So, why do I believe that this points a finger at Naftogaz and the Ukrainians?<\/p>\n Because rerouting some of the gas in one direction, and some in another is how these networks are supposed to function.<\/p>\n I would also add that the fact that the Ukrainians are refusing to route the gas to Europe and refusing to allow monitors into dispatching centers and control rooms<\/a> as agreed to by both sides.<\/p>\n This is not how an honest broker behaves.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the governments on the EU side of the pipeline are freaking out<\/a>, and Medvedev has called for an emergency summit on this in 3 days<\/a> in Moscow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And it is not the Russians. So we have an “agreement” 2 days ago, and Russia puts a little gas into the system, in order to verify that the Ukrainians are not tapping the gas going to Europe, and they get the following: Ukraine’s state energy firm said it could not ship the gas without …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135,984,1040,1033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-europe","category-former-soviet-union","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}