“No matter how Washington tries to present Russia as an unreliable supplier, and this line continues, all this is not true,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
Antonov stressed that buyers began to experience energy difficulties due to US sanctions, not Russian actions.
“We have never imposed our supplies, we have not tried to solve the acutely opportunistic goals attributed to us, we are ready to sell inexpensive and high-quality resources to anyone who needs it,” the ambassador said.
According to him, the ready-to-launch Nord Stream 2 solved the energy problems of Europe, but Western leaders lack the “diplomatic will” for this.
Earlier, the head of the Bundestag committee on energy and climate issues, Klaus Ernst, said that the sanctions imposed against Russia turned out to be hara-kiri for Germany.