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Kharkiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Russia said Wednesday it had destroyed a large quantity of Western-supplied weapons in Ukraine, while halting gas supplies to EU and NATO members Poland and Bulgaria in a move condemned by European capitals as attempted blackmail.

In a statement, Poland's state-run gas firm PGNiG said it would "entirely suspend" gas supplies on Wednesday morning

Vladimir Putin has demanded that ‘unfriendly’ countries pay for gas in roubles

Poland and Bulgaria accuse Gazprom of breaching contracts after it cuts off gas, demands payments in Russian roubles.

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.

Russia's Gazprom cut Poland and Bulgaria off from its gas on Wednesday for refusing to pay in roubles, and threatened to do the same to others, cranking up retaliation for Western sanctions imposed for Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Russia halted gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria on Wednesday, after blasts in a breakaway region of neighbouring Moldova led Kyiv to accuse Moscow of seeking to expand the Ukraine war further into Europe.

The European Union warned Russia on Wednesday it would not bend to "blackmail" over its support for Kyiv, after the Kremlin cut off gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland. Russia's President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, warned that if Western forces intervene in Ukraine, they will face a "lightning-fast" military response. "We…

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