Rome According to information from the Italian supplier Eni, Russia has stopped supplying gas to the Mediterranean country for the time being. The Russian company Gazprom announced that it could no longer deliver gas through Austria, Eni announced on Saturday. Russian gas normally arrives at, and is distributed from, the Italian-Austrian border town of Tarvisio in Italy.
An Eni spokesman told the Ansa news agency that Gazprom had announced that it was no longer able to deliver to Austria. However, according to information from Eni, the Alpine republic continues to receive Russian gas, the spokesman said.
By the time war broke out in Ukraine, Italy had received around 40 percent of its gas from Russia. Then the government in Rome and the partially state-owned company Eni closed with several other countries – such as Algeria – Agreement to minimize dependence on Moscow.