Precisely a week after Russia cut electricity supplies to Finland over non-payment (in rubles), Moscow has made its first explicitly retaliatory move over its Nordic neighbor’s application to NATO with an announcement to cut off natural gas.
Finland’s state-owned gas wholesaler Gasum has announced natural gas imports from Russia will stop Saturday, saying in a statement, “On the afternoon of Friday May 20, Gazprom Export informed Gasum that natural gas supplies to Finland under Gasum’s supply contract will be cut on Saturday May 21, 2022 at 07.00.”
Company CEO Mika Wiljanen stressed to the public it is adequately prepared “and provided that there will be no disruptions in the gas transmission network, we will be able to supply all our customers with gas in the coming months.”
“Gasum will supply natural gas to its customers from other sources through the Balticconnector pipeline. Gasum’s gas filling stations in the gas network area will continue in normal operation,” he said.
And Bloomberg confirms based on the statement, “In the meantime, supplies continue to flow into Finland via the Balticconnector pipeline from Estonia, but its capacity may not be enough to meet demand. That’s after a number of companies have already switched to other fuels or secured alternative supplies.” The report adds: “For the coming winter, the government on Friday agreed on renting a floating LNG terminal together with Estonia.”
While Gasum itself didn’t go into the reasons for the gas supply halt, it comes just two days after both Finland and Sweden submitted applications for NATO membership, which President Vladimir Putin subsequently called a problem. Kremlin statements earlier assured a coming “military and technical” response.
Like with last week’s Russian electricity cut-off, Helsinki has refused to acquiesce to Putin’s demand that Russia be paid in rubles amid ratcheting US and EU sanctions as punishment for the invasion of Ukraine. Poland and Bulgaria were previously the first to have their taps cut off.
As we previewed earlier, natural gas represents only 5% of Finland’s total energy consumption among diverse sources, though of that supply the country relies on 60%-70% coming from Russia, but is typically used by Finnish factories and less so for residential heating. Finland’s mains sources include oil, biomass and nuclear power.
Starting a week ago, Finnish national media first warned that Moscow was threatening to cut the country off from its gas supply. Citing unnamed sources at the time, Finland’s Iltalehti reported the warning was communicated from Kremlin officials to top Finnish politicians. This had been accompanied by a public foreign ministry statement saying, “Russia will be forced to take retaliatory steps, both of a military-technical and other nature, in order to stop the threats to its national security that arise in this regard.”
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Finland shares a border with Russia. If Russia wouldn’t let Ukraine join NATO there’s no way they’re going to let Finland join either. Finland is committing geopolitical suicide over nothing.
Just likr everywhere else, they were infiltrated. There is no consent of the governed in the Western world and hasn’t been for a very long time. This is why they hate Christians.
The People stand aghast, as we stand aghast at our border and the willful destruction of our economy. What is more outrageous than taking a nation being energy independent and destroying that?
I guess it’s time for Russia to send a few dozen hypersonic missiles into Helsinki and Stockholm…
Finland is lucky to get most of its electricity from hydroelectric. A country of 5.5 million people with dependable snow in its mountains can do that. I don’t think Russia will do anything militarily against Finland soon. The biggest problem for Finland might be that they’ll get roped into some “NATO” (U.S.) adventure in Bumfuckistan and then be expected to take in Bumfuckistanian refugees.
In the meantime, Turkey may actually veto Finland & Sweden joining NATO. Sure, the US will try to buy Turkey off, but Erdogan has a giant-ass list of demands and also wants to stay on decent terms with Russia. What’s hilarious is that Jake Sullivan and Anthony Blinken think they’re real smart by getting Finland & Sweden to seek NATO membership, but they apparently didn’t even bother running it past the president of the NATO country with the 2nd largest army – Turkey. Erdogan may want to fuck up their plan just because he’s pissed at being ignored.
The democrat CUNT ruler of finland wants to be cool like other democrats in the limelight.
This low IQ cunt is in way over her head.
A man needs to explain to the democrat CUNT that ukieland wanted to join nato too.
Putin will not allow nato on Russian border.
CUNT needs to STFU and learn how to make a proper samitch !
Keep the body in shape !
The Baltic states are already in NATO and they border Russia. Ukraine was a special case – chock full of NAZIs, American-funded biolabs, crawling with CIA goons and NATO trainers. Plus, they’d been shelling ethnic Russians in the Donbas for 8 years and had massively increased that shelling in February. Russia laid out its very reasonable demands in December and Ukraine/US rebuffed them. They fucked around and found out.
For now, Russia will just keep an eye on Finland and the Baltics. The president of Finland – Sauli Niinistö – already said that (contrary to American bullshit) Russia was not a threat to Finland – it’s just that the world financial powers are coalescing are US and non-US poles and it’s been made too difficult for Finland to stay “non-aligned”. Bad choice.
I have a funny feeling Russia is going to keep more than an eye on Finland (and Sweden). They’re going to poke their eyes out, then dare MasturbaNATO to come do something about it.
Keep dragging those knuckles you low I.Q. trog.
Who made this decision for Finland?
Any questions?
And I’ll point out that neither Sweden nor Finland bothered to ask their respective populations if they wanted any part of this idiocy.
A 15 year old is in charge of Finland??
Effectively, yes.
Would bang.
Dude, she’s 15!
Would bang.
She’s nearly 40 if you’re really that dumb.
Yeah, she is 36 or 37.
Payback’s a bitch.
“Finland’s state-owned gas wholesaler Gasum”
Oy vey!
Who do you guess is lying here?
RT writes “Russia has halted natural gas deliveries to Finland after state energy major Gasum failed to make the required payment in rubles to continue future supplies, the Finnish gas system operator Gasgrid Finland said on Saturday.”
Let me just check in my pocket for rubles… shit I’m all tapped out. Will rupees work?