According to RIA Novosti, according to him, Russia will try to use the "sudden crisis" in the European energy market "for its own purposes."

“One of them is that Gazprom, contrary to the requirements of European law, be granted a monopoly on the use of the new Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline,” Kublik wrote in an article for Gazeta Wyborcza.

He noted the complexity of the situation due to the lack of gas reserves in storage facilities in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.

Earlier, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in an interview with Les Echos, said that Nord Stream 2 should not be excluded from the sanctions lists.