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Russian President Vladimir Putin has already ordered Russia's central bank and Gazprom to prepare a scheme to pay for gas in rubles by March 31 amid Western sanctions against Russia over its "special military operation" in Ukraine, BTV reports. .

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European Union countries, where Gazprom accounts for about 40 percent of gas supplies, have said they refuse to pay for Russian gas in rubles.

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"Gazprom is indeed working on an option to completely suspend gas supplies to" enemy countries "(including all EU countries) and is assessing the consequences of such measures," Russia's Kommersant reported today.

Kommersant also said that Gazprom had refused to discuss the issue with the newspaper.

Gazprom, meanwhile, has not responded to Reuters's request for comment.

On Wednesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said customers would not be obliged to switch to Russian gas payments in rubles as early as Thursday, as "payments and deliveries are a time-consuming process."

Germany, Russia's largest gas customer, will continue to pay in euros or dollars, a German government spokesman said on Wednesday, adding that Putin had told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that nothing would change for European partners. despite his plan for payments in rubles.

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