He already has refused.
But, that does leave him with a problem: There’s not enough transport to get over about half of his gas that used to go to Europe, anywhere else. As long as prices stay sky high, that’s ok for him - revenue is a function of volume and price. But, high prices will encourage new energy production elsewhere and that will gradually drive down prices (note that Pooty already has to give discounts to China and India, and also note Dutch TTF (futures) are already generally trending down.) Once the energy markets level out or (including Russian production) swing into oversupply, Pooty is in deep doo-doo.
That doesn’t mean I agree with the energy sanctions on Russia. The proper course would be to simply do everything possible to increase supply. No sanctions needed, in the long run.
I’ve heard the Theory put out there that if Russia doesn’t keep their pipelines from the Gas wells flowing all winter, they can freeze and won’t be usable until next June.
If feeder pipelines freeze, and volume dromps, the main pipeline could freeze.
The same thing will happen to the Transalaska pipleline sometime in the Future, unless they can drill on new ground (the volume flow is too low/slow), but the Alaska pipeline is only 1/4 as long as the Russian ones.
Putin can’t shut the flow off, and can’t slow it down much, or run the risk of screwing himself.
This was just what some energy guy was saying, don’t know how true it actually is, but the Trans Alaska pipeline case is real.