Friday, November 12, 2021

Kremilin Vows Not To Cut Natural Gas Supplies To The EU After Threat From Belarus To Do So

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko chairs a meeting with the leadership of the Council of Ministers in Minsk, Belarus November 11, 2021. Nikolai Petrov/BelTA/Handout via REUTERS  

DW: Kremlin vows not to cut gas supplies to EU 

The Kremlin seemed to distance itself from a threat made by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko amid a standoff with the European Union.

Kremlin spokesperson Dimitry Peskov on Friday assured that Russia will keep supplying gas to Europe. 

A day earlier, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko threatened to cut off natural gas flows from Russia to Europe. 

The comment was in retaliation to possible EU sanctions over a standoff over migrants stranded on the Belarus-Poland border.

"This is a statement by the president of Belarus," Peskov said, noting that "Belarus is our ally, but it is a sovereign state."  

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Update #1: Kremlin says Lukashenko did not consult it on threat to cut Russian gas supplies (Reuters) 

Update #2: Lukashenko’s remark on likely gas transit cutoff was not harmonized with Moscow — Kremlin (TASS) 

WNU Editor: The Kremlin is not going to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I concur with 7:23. I give it a 50% to 100% chance of being true.

B.Poster said...

The EU needs the "goose" a bit more than Russia needs the "golden egg." It's basic economics. Of course the EU is ultimately going to cave. The corrupt chumps of eastern Europe for better or worse really aren't the EU's fight and I would expect them to tire of it very quickly.

Anonymous said...

Well troll, you fucked up the interpretation of the fable all to Hell. Your fuck up is Biden level of incompetence. The $ 1,000 question is why you are not in the gulag or some labor camp for being such a screw up of a troll.

Do trolls get training times longer than most professions? It has been over 5 years and you are still stuck on stupid.