Russia scraps deadline to resume gas flows to Europe via Nord Stream 1 pipeline

• Russia has scrapped today's deadline to resume gas flows via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, one of the main supply routes to Europe, after saying it discovered a fault during maintenance, deepening Europe's difficulties in securing fuel for winter.
• Nord Stream 1, which runs under the Baltic Sea to supply Germany and others, had been due to resume operating after a three-day halt for maintenance tomorrow. Moscow has blamed sanctions, imposed by the West after the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, for hampering routine operations and maintenance of Nord Stream 1.
• Brussels says this is a pretext and Russia is using gas as an economic weapon to retaliate. European Union Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said the bloc should impose a price cap on Russian pipeline gas to foil what she said were Russian President Vladimir Putin's attempts to manipulate the market.

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