“Different parties are trying, based on different motives, to confuse the importance of Europe's energy supply with geopolitical interests.
This project was and will remain primarily economic and energy.
Using it as a tool to achieve other political goals is wrong and endangers Europe's energy supply," TASS quoted him as saying.
Kotre also called on the German government to speed up the implementation of the gas pipeline project.
Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that Russia and Gazprom bear no responsibility for the energy crisis in Europe.