Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that some European countries may ask the European Union to exclude them from the embargo on the supply of Russian oil products. He talked about it in an interview TASS.
“Maybe they’ll make exceptions, like with oil,” he said.
Novak recalled that previous pipeline supplies, as well as processing plants in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, are not subject to restrictions.
He emphasized that even Poland and Germany, which had previously announced that they would give up on Russian oil, applied for pumping for 2023.
22 December European Union approved a dynamic gas price ceiling of 180 euros per megawatt-hour (about 1.85 thousand euros per 1 thousand cubic meters). The measure will come into effect on February 15, 2023.
Later Novak estimated A sharp rise in the prices of petroleum products in Europe after the supply embargo from Russia. Impossible, according to the Deputy Prime Minister relocate or cutting off the Russian Federation from the world energy market.