futures for uk and dutch naturalgas contracts surged tuesday with strategists and analysts attributing the recent runup in price to russia reuters reported that naturalgas shipments to germany via the yamaleurope pipeline near nesvizh southwest of minsk was reversing its flow with that coming as russia has been accused of withholding gas deliveries to europe amid tensions tied to ukraine and moscows chargess that it has faced delays getting approval for the nord stream 2 pipeline a kremlin spokesman was quoted as telling reuters that there was no connection between the reversal of yamaleuropes flows and the political wrangling over ukraine and nord stream 2 prices for the uk natgas contract for january were up 155 on the ice futures exchange while the dutch ttf gas futures were up 162 at last check on tuesday