Transit of gas to the Kaliningrad region from Belarus through Lithuania has been suspended at the request of Gazprom. This was announced by the operator of the Lithuanian gas transmission system Amber Grid on its website.
The reasons for this decision were not disclosed. “The flows to Lithuania from Belarus are stable. The Lithuanian gas transportation infrastructure is operating normally,” the company said. Operational data on the Amber Grid website has already shown a reduction in transit to the Kaliningrad region to zero. The company’s contract with Gazprom is valid until 2025.
In February, it became known that Lithuania lost to Gazprom in a court case on compensation of 1.4 billion euros for inflated gas prices. The country tried to prove that the Russian company, taking advantage of its monopoly position on the Lithuanian market, inflated prices for gas supplies in 2004-2012. In 2016, the Stockholm Arbitration Court rejected the claims of Vilnius, in 2019 the decision was confirmed by the appeal instance.