By Jan Lopatka, Vladimir Soldatkin and Nina Chestney PRAGUE/MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian gas was still reaching Austria on Monday despite Gazprom cutting off flows to top Austrian importer OMV over the weekend due to a contractual dispute,

Moscow's suspension of gas for Austria, the main receiver of gas via Ukraine, means Russia will now only supply significant gas volumes to Hungary and Slovakia, in Hungary's case via a pipeline running mostly through Turkey. In contrast, Russia met 40% of the European Union's gas needs before Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Austrian utility OMV says supplies from Russia’s state-owned natural gas company Gazprom stopped early Saturday after the company said it would stop payments for the gas following an arbitration award.