“The ministers concluded that the fight against climate change is a matter of foreign policy, and the rise in energy prices has deep geopolitical roots and is part of the geopolitical struggle,” he said following a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg.
Gas prices "must be viewed from a geopolitical point of view," he stressed.
Earlier, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, explaining the reasons for the rise in gas prices in Europe, recalled that prices are influenced by a number of speculative factors when traders "accelerate" them.
Moreover, LNG supplies to Europe decreased because suppliers were able to achieve higher prices in Asian countries and instead of Europe began to supply it there, he said.
According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the current crisis is due to the fact that over the past ten years, systemic flaws have been laid in the European energy sector, in particular, the EU authorities have relied on renewable energy sources and switched to exchange pricing in the gas industry.
As noted in the Kremlin, Western politicians made a miscalculation regarding the issue of switching to alternative energy sources, but they cannot admit this, otherwise they will be “driven out”.