Russia Turns up the Gas Pressure

As arguments over Ukraine’s pipelines to the West heat up, Europe’s energy supplies are at stake, writes Oliver Morgan.

Russia and Ukraine are wrangling bitterly over how gas is exported from Russia through its southern neighbour via a network of pipelines to destinations beyond the former Soviet Union.

Far from being a remote dispute in a far-away part of the world, it poses a problem for western Europe and the UK.