azprom's delivery of gas by 2021 is also a breach of their supply contracts from this year:
April - minus 10%
May - minus 14.5%
June - minus 30.4%
July - minus 37.2%
Breaches of their live contracts have continued for 5 months. The trend is clearly visible, with all gas supplies being stopped or minimised until winter.
It is not a recession, it is not a collapse of their economy, it is a total dismantling of their core industry ( Putin again cites technical reasons, which may be true, but there is clearly political blackmail behind it )
No, they can't sell the lost gas to China ( no more capacity in either pipeline or liquefied transport ).
Since they can't store that much gas, they can only and only play this political game by shutting down the wells. Now the reopening of these is in question, because the technology to do so has so far been acquired from the West. If the sanctions remain, they cannot open them up and they cannot trade them.
Of course, the uncertainty has pushed prices back to near-peak levels, and they are not expected to fall any time soon. It is time for German politicians to take the right decision and achieve independence as soon as possible.