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>No sane govt will allow a foreign power to literally be able to shutdown one of their cities on a whim.

Hasn't Gasprom done this [cut supply] in the past but continues to have customers in Europe? If it's cheap enough they will probably have customers.

After a long running dispute over theft of gas intended for western Europe, Gasprom cut off gas to Ukraine for 3 days in winter 2006 [1].

Note that Naftogaz (Ukraine gas organisation) later admitted to this theft, which was worth $3 billion.

Please note, that no theft was admitted by Naftogaz (outside usual Russian circle of propaganda).