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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, December 24, called it stupidity to prevent the launch of Nord Stream 2.

The European Commission has received a complaint from Ukraine's Naftohaz over "abuse of Russia's Gazprom's dominant position on the European market".

Gas futures prices in Europe fell by more than 8% by the close of trading on Wednesday, below $2,000 per thousand cubic metres.

The Ukrainian and Hungarian gas transport system operators have signed an agreement on guaranteed capacity to transport up to eight million cubic metres of gas per day from Hungary to Ukraine, which will increase the total capacity for imports to 35 million cubic metres per day.

The transition to carbon-neutral energy sources caused a rise in prices for blue fuel and provoked disagreements among European countries, some of which are not ready to give up gas and oil, Italian La Stampa reports.

Gazprom is putting pressure on Germany and the European Commission to launch the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. This was announced by the Polish government's member Piotr Naimsky.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko recalled the dependence of Lithuania and Ukraine on Belarusian transit.

During the day, the price increased by about $200, the last time it rose to this level was in early October of this year.

Ukraine has additional transit capacities, but Gazprom does not want to use them, Kiev said.

"Rosneft Bitumen" together with its official distributor "Synergy Oil Group" held a client seminar for road construction organisations and regional road administrations in Siberia and the Far East.

The US Senate will consider a bill on sanctions against Nord Stream 2 by 14 January next year.

The company decided to order 14% less than the usual volume — 27 million cubic meters per day against the usual 31.4 million.

Gas storage capacity in Germany has fallen below 60 percent.

According to the Federation Council, the words of the new Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer that Vienna continues to support the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is the position of a sane person.

The European Union plans to change the strategy for concluding gas contracts and improve the EU's energy security, Bloomberg reported.