To make things worse, Russian natural gas supplies to Bulgaria, pumped via Ukraine, were cut off on January 6th amid a deepening gas payments dispute between Moscow and Kiev in the midst of one of the coldest winters in years.
Da stvar bude gora, isporuke ruskog prirodnog gasa Bugarskoj, koje stižu preko Ukrajine, prekinute su 6. januara zbog eskalacije rusko-ukrajinskog spora oko plaćanja, sve to usred jedne od najhladnijih zima proteklih godina.