Russia cuts gas through major pipeline to Europe to 20% of capacity

Data on the Nord Stream website and the head of Germany’s network regulator, Klaus Mueller, confirmed the reduction

The landfall facility of the Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline and the transfer station of the OPAL gas pipeline, the Baltic Sea Pipeline Link, in Lubmin, Germany (Markus Schreiber/AP)

Russia’s Gazprom has halved the amount of natural gas flowing through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe to 20% of capacity.

It is the latest reduction to Nord Stream 1 that Russia has blamed on technical problems, but which Germany calls a political move to sow uncertainty and push up prices amid the war in Ukraine.