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Al Jazeera
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Lorraine Mallinder

What Ukraine’s assault on Russia could mean for EU gas supplies

A Gazprom worker walks next to pipelines at a gas measuring station at the Russian-Ukrainian border in Sudzha [File: Denis Sinyakov/Reuters]

A Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region – the largest since the war began with about 1,000 soldiers and more than two dozen tanks and other armoured vehicles storming over the border this week – poses a threat to a major gas supply line from Russia to the European Union.

While it may come as a surprise to many given the war in Ukraine, European countries like Austria, Hungary and Slovakia still buy gas from Russia – all of it flowing through the town of Sudzha in Kursk.

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