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Bulgaria says Russia halting gas supplies would be breach of contract

FILE PHOTO: A worker is seen next to a pipe at a construction site on the extension of Russia's TurkStream gas pipeline after a visit of Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic and Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, in Letnitsa, Bulgaria, June 1, 2020. REUTERS/ Stoyan Nenov

Bulgaria has paid for Russian gas deliveries for April and supplier Gazprom will be in breach of its current contract if it halts the flow, energy minister Alexander Nikolov told reporters on Wednesday.

Sofia would soon know if gas received via Turkey would be stopped, Nikolov said following Gazprom's advice to Bulgarian state gas company Bulgargaz it would halt supplies as of Wednesday.

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