“As for the ceiling, all the same, prices are determined by the market - the prices of oil, and indeed of any market goods,” he said in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel.

According to him, regardless of the ceilings that Western countries will introduce, Russia should not be interested in this.

“The main thing is that we will sell oil at the market price, primarily to those countries that have not joined this ceiling,” RIA Novosti quotes Siluanov.

Earlier, Igor Yushkov, a leading expert of the National Energy Security Fund and the Financial University under the Government of Russia, commented on the situation on the oil market in an interview with Economics Today.