For months, critics have accused Russia of withholding additional natural-gas shipments to Europe via Ukraine in order to pressure Brussels to fast-track its new Baltic Sea export pipeline, Nord Stream 2.
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RFE/RL: Triple threat? Russia halts coal exports to Ukraine, cancels power auction

A bulldozer loads coal onto the conveyor belt at the Trypilska Thermal Power Plant in Kyiv Oblast on Sept. 8, 2021.