OREANDA-NEWS. Poland this year has no alternatives to compensate for Russian gas, Russian Ambassador to Warsaw Sergey Andreev said on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel. Poland and Bulgaria refused to switch to a new payment scheme for Russian gas, which is why Gazprom stopped supplying fuel to these countries.

In the foreseeable future this year, there is no alternative for full compensation for Russian gas (from Warsaw. - NEWS.ru), the diplomat said.

On April 27, Gazprom Export sent a notice to Bulgargaz (Bulgaria) and PGNiG (Poland) to suspend gas supplies until the fuel is paid in rubles. According to her, as of the end of the business day on April 26, Gazprom Export had not received payments for gas supplies in April from these companies in rubles, although both companies were promptly informed of the need for such calculations.

In response, Piotr Naimsky, the authorized representative of the Polish government for strategic energy infrastructure, said that Warsaw would no longer buy gas from Russia. He promised that there would be no shortage of gas in the republic. According to him, the country will be provided with gas at the expense of its own production and supplies from other directions.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, in turn, called the suspension of Russian gas supplies to the country "revenge" for the sanctions that the Polish authorities imposed on Russian and Belarusian oligarchs, as well as enterprises.