Yamal

Ukraine's military intelligence, the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense, has reported significant damage to a Russian landing craft, the Yamal. The assault on the Yamal, a large Russian amphibious assault ship, occurred on Sunday morning and resulted in serious impairment to the vessel.

The Russian government has authorized the temporary lifting of "mirror sanctions" and allowed for 90 days the flow of natural gas supplies from Yamal LNG to Gazprom Marketing & Trading Singapore Ltd, which is part of Gazprom Germany, shows a government decree on Wednesday, Reuters reported.

The European Union refuses to pay for gas purchases from Russia in rubles and must prepare to cut off supplies. This was warned by the EC and the French presidency of the EU after the extraordinary meeting of the energy ministers of the 27 member states.

Poland and Bulgaria said Russian energy giant Gazprom's decision to halt natural gas supplies to them won't cause unbearable problems as they either have enough gas stored, or have alternatives to draw on.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called Gazprom's move "a direct attack on Poland, revenge for the sanctions we imposed", in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Russia's Gazprom has retained part of the capacity of the Yamal-Europe pipeline for the transit of blue fuel through Poland for the first time in 43 days. Information about this is published in the GSA Platform. According to the information, 12.53 million cubic meters of gas will be transited through Yamal-Europe on February 2.

"The Bulgarian Telecommunications Company" (BTC), operating under the Vivacom brand, and Russian "Gazprom Space Systems" will develop joint ventures, announced the Bulgarian company on Friday.

Icebreaker Christophe de Margerie, carrying liquefied gas from Russia, has landed tonight in the port of the British island of Grane, reports investor.bg, referring to TASS. These are the first quantities of liquefied Russian gas that is received by the UK.

Novatek's Yamal liquefied natural gas (LNG) project will increase Russia's global natural gas exports by around 10 percent, Russian Deputy Energy Minister Anton Inyutsyn said on July 12.      

Pipes are built over bulging and unstable Arctic pingos prone to violent eruptions caused by 'thawing methane gas', as seen twice on the Yamal peninsula this year.

A Russian battleship passed through the Dardanelles en route to the Mediterranean, minutes after Turkish F-16s shot down a Russian fighter jet due to an airspace violation.