Schultz: Putin is to blame for the increase in energy prices in Europe

According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, “Olaf Schultz”, the Prime Minister of Germany, made a strange claim without mentioning the negative effect of the economic sanctions that his country imposed against Russia under the pretext of Ukraine’s war, “Vladimir Putin”. The president blamed Russia for the increase in energy prices in the West and Europe.

According to “Sputnik” news agency, Shultz, in a speech at the Congress of his party known as the “Social Democratic” party, the Russian president accused of stopping the flow of gas from an operational pipeline to Europe, significantly reducing Germany’s gas intake and fueling a shortage of European energy reserves.

Schultz claimed: “Russia: Yes, it was Russia that suspended the supply of energy to Europe…it was the President of Russia that stopped the transmission of gas through an active pipeline. These actions caused consequences for energy prices.”

But this narrative of Shultz loses color in the shadow of the role that his country played in imposing sanctions against Moscow and limiting the flow of Russian energy to Western Europe.

Schultz’s decision to join the United States and Britain in order to embargo Russia’s energy resources worsened Germany’s problems.

Germany as a result of this The decision deprived itself of about 120 billion cubic meters of Russian gas. In order to replace this decrease in Russian gas transmission, Berlin increased gas imports from Norway and built a new liquefied natural gas transmission infrastructure on its east coast with the aim of increasing more expensive gas imports from the United States, while all these decisions were not made by Moscow. Rather, they were adopted by Western countries.

According to the data of the European “Eurostat” statistical database, the European Union has spent 304 billion euros on gas imports since February 2022, of which 185 billion euros This amount has been paid by this union for the expenses caused by anti-Russian sanctions. Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, said in a speech earlier that the sanctions caused a serious blow to the entire economy. became global According to Putin, the West’s main goal of these sanctions has been to worsen the lives of millions of people.

The Russian government has repeatedly emphasized that it will solve all the problems that the West creates for it.

After last year’s terrorist attacks on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines, the supply of gas to Germany was severely disrupted. In November, the Russian Ministry of Energy announced that the country “has not blocked” the energy transfer route to the West, and even in the current difficult situation, it remains one of the reliable suppliers of gas.

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