On Monday, Gazprom cut off natural-gas supplies to Kiev, “further aggravating already tense relations between Russia and Ukraine.”
The announcement flies in the face of the notion that energy supplies and pricing are driven by free market forces.
In a statement, the Ukrainian prime minister, Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, said that Russia’s move was part of a larger pattern of Kremlin aggression.
“This is not about gas,” Mr. Yatsenyuk said. “This is a general plan for the destruction of Ukraine.” He said the decision was the latest in a series of steps that “began with the annexation of Crimea, the Donbass terrorists, supplying Russian weapons and sending Russian bandits to the territory of Ukraine.”
According to The New York Times, this decision by Russia’s state-owned energy company could also diminish the amount of natural gas Russia sends to Europe.
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