“Freezing Russian foreign currency is a destructive measure aimed at damaging the Russian economy and trade relations in Europe.
This attack on the ruble forced Russia to charge for gas in rubles, ”RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Krupalla added that the priority at the moment is to reopen economic ties to facilitate peace talks.
“Then it will certainly be easier to agree on the terms of payment (for energy resources. -
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),” he said.
Earlier, Deputy Head of the Economic Department of the Institute of Energy and Finance Sergei Kondratyev spoke about gas supplies to Germany, including the situation with Gazprom Marketing & Trading Ltd.
(GM&T), previously transferred under temporary management to the German Federal Network Agency (BnetzA).