Russia is ready to supply gas to Europe in the volumes envisaged by the contractsbut if the EU “twists its arm” in Moscow by refusing to supply repaired turbines for Nord Stream or launch Nord Stream 2, then this will not be guaranteed. These are the ‘conditions’ that the vice president of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, poses in an interview with the broadcaster LCI.
The war between Russia and Ukraine seems far from over. The refusal of Ukraine to join NATO is a “necessary” condition, but “not sufficient” for the achievement of peace because Russia is asking for further “guarantees of security, she says.
Medvedev comments on NATO and says that the French president, Emmanuel Macron, was a “good doctor” to diagnose the “brain death” of the Atlantic Alliance in 2019.
“France knows how to make medical diagnoses. President Macron said NATO is brain dead. He’s a good doctor, it’s hard for me to disagree with him,” he says.