European Commission: Russia’s lack of energy resources has caused a dramatic increase in costs
reported by Mehr News Agency Quoting from Rashatudi, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, acknowledged the dramatic increase in energy prices in Europe due to the lack of cheap sources from Russia, and announced the intensification of the energy crisis in this continent.
Von der Leyen, who was speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said that before 2022 and the start of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, the European Union will have 45% of the gas and 50% of the coal needed. It supplied itself from Russia and Moscow was one of the largest oil suppliers of this bloc.
He added that “this energy seems cheap, but this price exposed us to extortion.” He also claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin “deprived us of our gas resources” after the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022!
The head of the European Commission added: Our gas imports from Russia decreased by about 75%, and currently our oil imports from Russia are only 3%, and no coal is imported from this country. We don’t.
Acknowledging the aggravation of the energy crisis in Europe due to the lack of Russian energy resources, he claimed: Freedom has a price. Households and businesses saw skyrocketing energy costs, and the bills of many of them are still far from being reduced.
On the pretext of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, the European Union imposed extensive sanctions against Moscow’s industry, energy and financial sectors. In 2022, citing the need for routine repairs and problems in the delivery of Western equipment due to sanctions, Russia cut off its gas flow to Germany through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline.
The Nord Stream pipelines, which run under the Baltic Sea, were targeted for sabotage in September 2022. Although no one has claimed responsibility, Moscow has since called the United States and England behind the curtain of this sabotage, but both Washington and London have denied any involvement in it!
Von der Leyen also claimed that the EU could replace its energy imports from Russia with renewable sources as well as nuclear power. He said: We have to invest in the next generation of clean energy technologies.
