No; that’s a crisis created by the elites for the purpose of imposing a police state eventually. You can see that in progress through stuff like “COVID passports” and the like.
The article is an emotional piece of propaganda and isn’t even good to manipulate facts to support the message.
First, the repositories filled to 8 to 20% is not a shortage.
Second, it implies that Gazprom did something wrong, which is not the case, because the contract obligations are fulfilled and the agreed amount of gas was in fact delivered.
The fact that more gas has been consumed than expected doesn’t mean that more gas should be automatically delivered unless there is a real shortage.
Also UK called to halt deliveries through the Yamal pipeline, coming through Belarus and Poland, as part of sanctions on Belarus for ‘Ryanair highjacking’.
Ukraine previously nationalized diesel fuel in a similar pipeline running to Hungary under the same pretext, so you can’t blame Gazprom for refusing to pump the extra amounts above contract obligations, which might is seized under phony pretext as well.
Last but not least is a Nordstream II pipeline, expected to be operational by late August.
Why should Gazprom contract the Ukrainian transit capacity to replenish the European storage, wasting a billion dollars, when it would simply use its own capacity through Nordstream II in only two months?
Another positive aspect of the situation is that it exposes the fifth column in Europe opposing NSII as traitors, who are trying to provoke winter shortages by their reckless actions.
Regardless American LNG, nobody indeed rejected it.
There is infrastructure to take it in Europe at this point but the American companies lack the capacity and unwilling to supply them an current prices, because they prefer to ship to the premium Asian markets, where the price is twice of that of Europe.