“In the end, if it’s impatient, if everything is so difficult, take and lift the sanctions on Nord Stream 2 - 55 billion cubic meters a year, just press the button - and everything went,” he said at a press conference after the SCO summit in Samarkand.
Putin stressed that some of the EU's capacities were blocked on their own, somewhere they did not provide repairs, and sanctions were imposed on the new gas pipeline.
They don’t want to open Nord Stream 2, but are we to blame?
Let them think about who is to blame for what, and don’t blame us for their own mistakes, ”he summed up.
Putin also said that it was not the Russian special operation in Ukraine that caused the energy crisis in Europe.
Earlier, the Russian leader called the idea of Western countries to limit gas prices from Russia stupid.