Russian gas “There will be no in Europe if the EU decides to introduce a price cap”. This was stated by the vice-president of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedevcommenting on the appeal of the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen a introduce a cap on the price of gas.
“It will be like with oil. There will simply be no Russian gas in Europe,” Medvedev warned.
The time has come to cap the price of gas arriving from Russia via pipeline to Europe, he said from the Leyen, noting the need to counter what he referred to as the attempts of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to manipulate the European energy market. “I firmly believe that the time has come to set a ceiling on the price of Russian gas to Europe,” von der Leyen told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of Conservative MPs in the city of Murnau, Bavaria.
A cap on the price of oil, as proposed by the G7 states, will cause a “destabilization” of the energy markets and push Moscow to sell its crude “elsewhere”. So the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskovaccording to which anti-Russian measures, or sanctions, “have led to a very deep crisis” and a situation in which Europeans “are buying, often from the United States, liquefied gas for a lot of money, completely unjustified. US companies they are getting richer while European taxpayers are getting poorer. “
Calling the idea of a price cap on oil “absurd”, Peskov stressed that “Russia is evaluating all options”, evoking “alternative scenarios” for its sales. “We will simply not interact with them with these non-market principles”, explained the spokesman, referring to the countries that will adhere to the proposed cap on the price.
Answering the question of where Moscow intends to allocate the unsold oil, Peskov said: “Towards alternative directions, towards those countries that operate under market conditions”.