ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine—Rich countries agreed on Friday to try to cap the global price of Russian oil, while Russia delayed the reopening of its main gas pipeline to Germany.
Russia’s state-controlled energy giant Gazprom blamed a technical fault in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline.
The announcements came as Moscow and Kyiv traded blame over their actions on one of the Ukraine war’s most dangerous frontlines—the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, where U.N. inspectors arrived a day earlier on a mission to check the safety of the facility and avert a potential disaster.
Gazprom said it could no longer provide a timeframe for restarting deliveries through the pipeline, an announcement that will deepen Europe’s difficulties securing fuel for winter at a time when it faces an energy-driven surge in living costs….