Russia halts gas shipments to Poland, signaling escalation against EU, report says

• Polish news site Onet.Pl said Tuesday that Russia stopped gas shipments to Poland.
• The move signals escalation as the Kremlin looks to retaliate against EU sanctions.

Russia cut off natural gas supplies to Poland, government and industry sources told Polish news site Onet.Pl on Tuesday.

The report has yet to confirmed from either side, but European gas prices soared on the report, climbing as high as 17%.

The move signals escalation between the Kremlin and the European Union, which has imposed a series of sanctions in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine even as it relies heavily on Russian energy imports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened in March that any "enemy" countries that did not pay for their gas in rubles would run the risk of seeing their supplies shut off.

PG NiG, the Poland's state-control oil provider, told Polish news that they were monitoring the situation closely and have the necessary infrastructure to full fill orders from other markets.

"We are completely prepared to become completely independent of Russian gas supplies to Poland in 2022," Piotr Naimksi, a member of Poland's parliament told Europe's Economic Congress earlier this year.