If Russian pipeline gas supplies to Europe resume, the volume of these supplies will be large-scale, but the entire logistics will be rebuilt.

Ukraine's allies have warned against the European Union reopening Russian gas pipelines as part of a prospective peace settlement.

Russian missile attacks on state-owned natural gas assets in Ukraine have forced the country to buy expensive replacement fuel from the European Union, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The dissolution of the Soviet Union greatly affected this decades-old gas business. Russian gas now had to transit an independent Ukraine. Even so, Russia continued to increase its exports to Europe, with the exported volume rising from 110 billion cubic meters in 1990 to 175 billion in 2020.

Europe has significantly reduced its dependence on Russian pipeline gas but its LNG imports complicate the picture.

The U.S. special envoy to Russia and Ukraine said Thursday the U.S. plans to significantly step up pressure on Russia through sanctions to end the war in Ukraine. In an exclusive interview with the New York Post,

Earlier this week, a bomb went off in a quiet Moscow suburb. A man named Armen Sargsyan was killed. He was the leader of a pro-Russian paramilitary group in eastern Ukraine and was a wanted man in Kyiv since 2014.

These systems have a long track record of lethality. And if the Russian media is to be believed, the Iskander-Ms are getting deadlier still.