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Reuters
Reuters
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By Vladimir Soldatkin and Olesya Astakhova

Europe wary of Turkish hub to hide gas 'made in Moscow'

FILE PHOTO: Workers stand near a pipe at a construction site on the extension of Russia's TurkStream gas pipeline ahead of the visit of Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic and Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, in Letnitsa, Bulgaria, June 1, 2020. REUTERS/ Stoyan Nenov/File Photo

President Vladimir Putin's plan to make Turkey a hub for Russian gas in theory could allow Moscow to mask its exports with fuel from other sources, but that might not be enough to persuade Europeans to buy, analysts and sources said.

Russia supplied 40% of the European Union gas market until Moscow on Feb. 24 sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in what it calls a "special military operation".

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