Bloomberg reports that
20 European companies have already
opened accounts at Gazprombank to pay for fuel by converting euros into rubles. Another
14 customers - have requested the documents needed to open them.
The deadline for payment for
April deliveries for major
Western European buyers is approaching the end of this month, the publication specifies. Yesterday the prime minister of
Italy said that
Germany has already started paying for
Russian gas in rubles.
The
EU countries prefer not to comment on the gas payment situation, so as not to make it look like a concession to
Russia.
