Finnish television Yle I had already advanced it last week: Russia is burning natural gas right on the border with the Nordic country and the plume of smoke is visible from the other side of the line.
Now, it is NASA who has confirmed with some satellite images how this precious energy is burning that is leading the EU upside down after Putin announced cuts and that European countries are preparing to assume the restrictions in the best possible way.
These pictures show how the flames come from the facilities of the Portova stationbelonging to Gazprom, since the middle of June, days after the sale of gas to Europe was sharply cut.
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This installation is, precisely, one of the starting points of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, one of the places where the gas is compressed to be transferred by the gas pipeline to Lubmin, in Germany.
Some experts predict that this burning means that Russia is having trouble storing all the gas that it is extracting and that it is burning quantities that in other circumstances would be marketed in Europe. However, others warn that it could be a bug in the installation.
For his part, the Minister of Energy of Ukraine, Herman Galushchenkohas it much clearer and has assured on Facebook that these images show that the sanctions imposed on the Kremlin work since “instead of earning billions of euros with supplies, the russians are forced to simply burn the extracted gas in the air. The blackmailers are already feeling the damage and the time frame in which they can still dictate their terms is rapidly shrinking.”
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