There is no “sensible explanation” for the EU eschewing Russian gas supplies, the president has said
Russia sees absolutely no sense in the EU’s current policy of forgoing Russian energy supplies, particularly gas, President Vladimir Putin told the Russian Energy Week forum on Wednesday. He added that “the modern political system in [the West] obviously sometimes brings not the smartest people to the top.”
Speaking about the issue of Russian gas exports to Europe, he pointed to what he called a lack of common sense in some European capitals.
“There is no sensible explanation to why some European economies, including Germany’s, should behave like this,” the president said, referring to the situation in the European energy market. He called it “surprising” that European nations did not demand that Kiev reopen one of the Russian gas pipelines going through Ukraine after it was shut down.
Ukraine halted Russian gas transit along one of…