MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia stepped up its gas tussle with Belarus on Wednesday, saying it had cut supplies to its neighbor by more than half but that gas was flowing smoothly to Europe despite Minsk's threats to shut down transit pipelines.
On Tuesday, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko ordered the transit of Russian gas to Europe halted in a debt dispute with Russia's gas export monopoly Gazprom, declaring the two nations were facing a full-scale "gas war."
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