A video shared on social media and news reports in Russia shows how Russians imagine winter in Europe: frozen cities and gas cuts in scenes reminiscent of the Ice Age.

Winter in Europe, filmed in a Russian cityPhoto: video shooting

The video was reposted on Twitter by NEXTA TV, founded by Belarusian dissident Roman Protasevich, with the page’s administrators saying Gazprom was trying to intimidate Europe by posting the footage under the title “It’s Gonna Be a Long Winter.” “.

But one of the most popular Russian news sites, Lenta, notes that although Gazprom employees can be seen in uniform at the beginning of the video, the footage was not published on the energy company’s website or on its official pages, but instead. the governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai in Siberia.

“Well you get it,” he wrote on his Telegram channel in a post that accompanied the video.

While some Russians expressed delight at such “awesome trolling”, others noted the irony of the fact that the video was shot in Krasnoyarsk Krai, and many of the scenes were in the administrative capital of the same name, with the city of Krasnoyarsk being the third largest. bigger than Siberia.

For example, the bridge that can be seen in the video is the famous Vynogradivsky bridge in the city.

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Russia threatens to leave Europe without natural gas this winter

The video was published and shared on Russian social media a week after Gazprom completely cut off natural gas supplies from the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which supplies gas to Germany and other European countries.

The energy company, Russia’s largest, initially said the pipeline would be shut down for 3 days, from August 31 to September 2, for scheduled maintenance work, but reversed course on Friday to announce that supplies would effectively be suspended indefinitely .

The European Commission accuses Russia of suspending Nord Stream supplies under false pretenses and that the move is “further proof of its unreliability as a supplier” and “proof of Russia’s cynicism, as it prefers to dump gas instead of honoring contracts.”

Gazprom again tried to justify closing the pipeline by blaming Siemens, the German company responsible for repairing one of the turbines, which the Russians said broke shortly after they returned it.

But in a press release on Saturday, a day after Gazprom announced an indefinite supply suspension, Siemens dismissed the Russian energy company’s arguments.

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