Russia is currently making a mockery of sanctions after earning what is likely record revenues from oil and gas sales. China has overtaken Germany as Russia’s largest consumer of energy since the start of the war in Ukraine, helping fill Russia’s coffers during a critical period, an independent research group at the Finnish Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air said on Monday.
Britain’s food supply is now vulnerable after one of only two major fertiliser plants in the country shut down due to spiralling energy costs just months after receiving a taxpayer bailout. CF Industries will close its site at Ince, Chester, putting nearly 300 jobs at risk, after the price of natural gas made the plant unprofitable.
State Duma (Russian Parliament) Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said that the economies of the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy, and Canada continue to crack under load due to sanctions against Russia.
India is buying up cheap sanctioned Russian oil, refining it, and then selling it to the US and EU for huge profits, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The US has reluctantly given India permission to buy Russian oil because India has threatened to ditch their alliance with America and ally with China if the US dares to sanction them.
According to him, the EU needs to change its strategy. ‘No one is interested in seeing the whole of Europe go bankrupt. After the oil embargo, they want to impose a gas embargo, then we will destroy the entire European economy,’ Orbán said on Kossuth radio. His words are quoted by RIA Novosti .
Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation and Chairman of the United Russia party, answered a question about the particular harshness of his posts in Telegram.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi regrets that some European leaders have shunned his attempts to bring Russia into the ‘camp of the West.’ In his opinion, if this happened, the situation in Europe today would be different. Berlusconi believes that the conflict in Ukraine has shown not only the isolation of Russia from the West, but also of the West itself from the rest of the world.
In the United States, there is a state of emergency due to a shortage of equipment for generating electricity, Biden said. This after ‘President’ Biden sanctioned four Asian countries that supplied the United States with 80% of equipment in this area.
Can you see what’s going on? The Russians are creating a buffer zone along their western perimeter. Why are they doing that? What benefit do they derive from a buffer zone?
Romania’s largest energy suppliers will increase the price of natural gas by two and a half to three times from July, mostly justifying the rise in price with the war in Ukraine. In fact, the increase is a direct result of the Romanian member of the European Union regime – after accepting Russian gas – refusing to pay for it in rubles. Many EU nations have decided to pay their bills in rubles.
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