The Russian state energy giant Gazprom announced today that continues to feed with natural gas Europe through Ukrainekeeping pace with requests from European consumers.
The company stated that the requests amount to 108.4 million cubic meters for April 1 from 109.5 million cubic meters a day earlier.
Putin: The period of cooperation with the West is over
Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the West of seeking new pretexts to announce sanctions in his country, stressing that unprecedented sanctions had been prepared in advance and would be imposed “in any case”.
Insisting that Russia is never willing to sacrifice “its national interests and its traditional values”, Putin said that although it would not become a “closed country”, it would not seek any further cooperation with Western companies in the near future.
The Kremlin has also denied allegations in Washington and London that the Russian head of state was either misled or kept in the dark by his advisers.
Medvedev: Exports of food “only to our friends”
A barrage of threats by Russian officials amid Western sanctions.
Russia’s Deputy Security Council Secretary warns of “blockade” on Russian agricultural exports in response to European and US sanctions Dmitry Medvedev, who served as President of Russia from 2008 to 2012.
Describing “some simple but important points about food security in Russia”, given the sanctions imposed, Medvedev warned the West:
“We will supply food and agricultural products only to ‘our friends’ “. “Fortunately we have a lot of them and they are not in Europe or North America at all,” Medvedev said sharply on social media in a text entitled “Our food against their sanctions.”
The agricultural supplies to the “friends” will be in both rubles and in their national currency in an agreed ratio, Medvedev said.
“A variety of delicious Russian products are enough to fully meet our domestic needs (…) It turns out that we will eat breakfast alone. Maybe we share lunch with friends. “And we will not give dinner to the enemies,” said the Russian official.
Russia has already banned most food imports from the West in 2014 following the annexation of Crimea by Ukraine.
For his part, Russian Foreign Ministry official Nikolai Kombrinets “The EU ‘s actions will not go unanswered; irresponsible sanctions from Brussels are already negatively affecting the daily lives of ordinary Europeans,” he told the Russian state news agency.
THE Russia announced that it prohibits entry into its territory to European leaders and most MEPsin response to sanctions imposed on her for its military invasion of Ukraine.
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