He said this in an interview with the French TV channel LCI.
“We don't want to cover anything.
We have been supplying gas to Europe for decades.
Europe was happy and we were happy.
So, the relationship should be pragmatic.
But now Europe has stepped into the wake of American policy.”
Medvedev said.
At the same time, the supply of liquefied natural gas from the United States to Europe is “very expensive, almost unrealistic,” the deputy chairman of the Security Council emphasized.
“But now Europe has brought itself to the point where it is seriously considering this option.
Piped gas is much cheaper, and liquefied natural gas is terribly expensive.
It got to the point that Chancellor Scholz went to Canada to negotiate the supply of liquefied natural gas, motivating his desire by the fact that it is better to buy gas in a democratic, close country than from Russia.
Well, let him buy,” Medvedev concluded.
Earlier, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced plans to negotiate with Canada on the supply of raw materials to replace Russian.
As the newspaper Die Zeit later wrote, Scholz's attempts to negotiate gas supplies with Canada were unsuccessful: at current gas prices, exports from Canada to Europe simply do not pay off, and it is not known whether he can pay off in the future.