Energy war as West caps Russian oil price, Moscow keeps gas pipe shut

Ukrainian serviceman with a dog checks a motorcade transporting a part of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission coming back from a Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at a Ukrainian checkpoint in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine September 1, 2022. REUTERS/Anna Voitenko

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) -Rich countries agreed on Friday to try to cap the global price of Russian oil, while Russia delayed the re-opening of its main gas pipeline to Germany, as both sides raised the stakes in an energy war between Moscow and the West over Ukraine.

Russia's state-controlled energy giant Gazprom blamed a technical fault in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. But the high-level manoeuvres in energy politics underlined the pervasive impact of the conflict, far beyond Ukraine's borders.