Russia has taken the step that almost everyone took for granted: cut off gas to Europe through Nord Stream 1. What a few days ago were technical problems is now simply one more geopolitical move in a context of war. “The Western collective, in this case the European Union, Canada and the United Kingdom, is to blame that the situation has reached this point,” said Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov. Moscow has also openly assured that it does not will resume pumping through the main gas route to Germany until the EU lifts the current sanctions against the Putin regime. In this sense, Russia’s excuse was that the parts needed to repair gas pipeline turbines could not arrive precisely because of these measures. In that story, the Gazprom company maintained that there is “risk of explosion” if in the current situation supply resumes. “The operation of this compressor unit without correcting the detected faults creates a risk of fire or explosion, which affects the industrial safety of the entire station,” the company explains in a statement. “Given that these sanctions continue to apply; given that there is absolute legal and practical confusion with everything that is related to the maintenance of components and assemblies, for now we can only hope that some sort of order can be achieved with that single unit Peskov himself commented. “There are no other reasons than the sations of the West,” he added, in the context of a “conflict” that began over a turbine that had to arrive from Canada but, according to the Russian version, was blocked in Germany. because of the restrictive measures applied by the European Union. All in all, this is the third step in the pressure on the gas pipeline: first Moscow limited the supply to 60% and then only 20%. Now it remains at zero. Meanwhile, the EU has already achieved the objective of having its gas reserves at 80% and in the German case these already amount to 85%, according to data provided by the Government of Olaf Scholz. In its phase of adaptation to the new era, Berlin has also announced that it will leave two of its three nuclear power plants in reserve in case they are necessary to compensate for the energy deficit next winter and thus suspends the definitive closure of these facilities. This has always been a fierce debate in the country and has also generated divisions between Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals, who make up the Traffic Light Executive.