Russia's gas monopolist, Gazprom, recently stopped supplying natural gas to Austria via Ukraine – a route that had been in operation for decades. Why Moscow cut off one of its key European customers and what this means for gas transit through Ukraine,

Moscow's suspension of gas for Austria, the main receiver of gas via Ukraine, means Russia will now only supply significant gas volumes to Hungary and Slovakia, in Hungary's case via a pipeline running mostly through Turkey. In contrast, Russia met 40% of the European Union's gas needs before Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Austria's biggest energy supplier is trying to recover damages awarded during arbitration from Gazprom by essentially stopping some payment for gas supplied via Ukraine.

STORY: Russia halted gas deliveries to Austria on Saturday (November 16), hours after Vienna said Moscow had given notice it would cut off flows.But Russian state-owned gas giant Gazprom continued to pump steady volumes to Europe via Ukraine.

Russia has halted gas supplies to Austria over payment issues but maintains steady deliveries to Europe through Ukraine.

Austria's chancellor says Russia’s state-owned natural gas company Gazrom will cut off supplies early Saturday to Austrian utility OMV.

BERLIN/PRAGUE/LONDON (Reuters) -Russian gas flows to Austria were suspended for a second day on Sunday because of a pricing dispute, but other buyers in Europe stepped in to snap up unsold volumes, companies and sources said and data showed.

By Jan Lopatka and Vladimir Soldatkin PRAGUE/MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian gas appeared to still be reaching Austria despite Gazprom cutting off flows to top Austrian importer OMV over the weekend due to a contractual dispute,

Russia halted gas supplies to Austria on Saturday in a dispute over payments but was still pumping steady volumes to Europe via Ukraine after remaining buyers asked for more gas. Russia, which before the Ukraine war was the biggest single supplier of natural gas to Europe,