BORDER CROSSING – Some 317 thousand people entered or left Romania on Friday via all border crossing points. Some 11,000 Ukrainians entered Romania, down by 5.46% compared to the previous day. Therefore, starting February 10, two weeks before the war had started, some 2.1 million Ukrainian citizens have entered Romania.
GAZPROM – The European Commission has accused the Russian giant Gazprom for having suspended its natural gas deliveries to Germany via the Nord Stream pipeline in the Baltic Sea under fallacious pretenses. “Gazprom’s announcement is another confirmation of its unreliability as a supplier and proof of Russia’s cynicism, as it prefers to flare gas instead of honoring contracts”, European Commission spokesman, Eric Mamer, tweeted on Friday. Gazprom announced that the Nord Stream pipeline would be shut down pending the repair of a faulty turbine. The announcement risks spiking concern among EU Member States, who are trying to avert an energy crisis in the coming winter and who accuse Moscow of using natural gas as a weapon to take revenge for the sanctions the West has imposed on Russia in response to the latter’s invasion of Ukraine.
(Radio Romania International)
