Austrian OMV opens account with Gazprombank to pay for Russian gas

The Austrian energy company OMV opened an account with Gazprombank to pay for Russian gas supplies, Reuters reports with reference to its representative.

He stressed that ion the one hand, the payment process did not violate the sanctions, on the other hand, it allowed timely payment for gas.

"We consider our payment obligations fulfilled with the transfer of the amount in euros", TASS quoted the OMV representative.