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Russia’s Gazprom keeps gas pipeline to Germany turned off

Russia says sanctions imposed by the West over its invasion of Ukraine are hampering routine maintenance of Nord Stream 1 pipeline, but some European leaders accuse Moscow of using energy as a weapon [File: Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters]

Russian energy giant Gazprom has postponed a Saturday deadline to restore flows via a crucial gas supply route to Europe, citing an oil leakage in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline discovered during maintenance.

The energy company had shut down the pipeline on Wednesday for what it said would be three days of maintenance, but said in a social media post on Friday evening that it had identified “malfunctions” of a turbine.

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