Moscow, 31 March 2022 (dpa/MIA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Western states must open accounts with Gazprombank in order to pay for and continue receiving Russian gas with effect from April 1. Unless they did so, Putin said on Russian state television on Thursday, deliveries to so-called "unfriendly" countries would be stopped. It was not immediately clear whether under the arrangement Western countries would be paying in roubles or euros, however.