I mean, Georgia wasn't able to do it!
What, you think the Zionists and Globalists gave up on their world domination plans?
"Ukraine warns Europe may face gas shortages" by Maria Danilova, Associated Press | January 4, 2009
KIEV - A top Ukrainian official warned yesterday that European customers could see serious natural gas disruptions in about two weeks if the energy dispute between Russia and Ukraine is not resolved, and the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom accused Ukraine of boycotting contract negotiations.
As Russia and Ukraine traded accusations in their bitter dispute over energy prices, four European nations - Romania, Hungary, Poland, and Bulgaria - all reported some supply drops in natural gas yesterday.
Gazprom cut off gas shipments to Ukraine on Thursday. Then Gazprom and Ukraine embarked on dueling charm offensives, both trying to assure western European nations that they were reliable energy partners and the fault lay with their rival.
The Russian delegation hoped to convince investors in Prague, Paris, Berlin, and London that Kiev is to blame for any gas shortages, saying Ukraine is siphoning off natural gas from Russian shipments, as well as refusing to pay $600 million in fines or negotiate a new price contract for 2009.
Russia supplies Ukraine with natural gas and also sends 80 percent of its gas supplies to Europe through pipelines in Ukraine. The stakes in the dispute are high because Europe relies on Russia for a quarter of its gas needs and because heat is crucial in the biting northern European winter.
You know, I keep hearing about this global warming thing....
Meanwhile, Bohdan Sokolovsky, an economic aide to President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine, warned that serious disruptions could hit Russia's European customers, if Russia continues to refuse to ship gas allocated for Ukraine to Ukraine. Sokolovsky said even though Ukraine continued to pump Russian gas destined for Europe, European countries could see major shortfalls in 10 to 15 days.
Well, what it sounds like is Russia has Europe by the short hairs!
Does that mean a split in the World War between USrael and its EU allies?
Without Ukraine's share of gas in the shipment from Russia, the overall gas levels in the pipeline transit system begin to fall. Sokolovsky said if that continues, an automatic shutdown will be triggered because the system requires a minimum amount of gas to maintain pipeline pressure....
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Gazprom says it has continued pumping the gas meant for Europe. Gazprom Deputy Chairman Alexander Medvedev said Gazprom has been using alternative routes that don't cross Ukraine - pipelines in Belarus and Turkey - but those don't have the capacity to make up the shortfall. As a result, some European countries were seeing a reduction in supplies.
"We try to do our utmost to compensate for what Ukraine is doing . . . but the capacity to compensate has its limits," Medvedev said. Gazprom Alexei Miller later suggested at a televised company meeting in Moscow that European consumers should sue Ukraine for allegedly stealing their gas....
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