European Commission (EC) vice-president Maros Sefcovic said on social network X (X, formerly Twitter) that the European Commission has officially confirmed that Western companies are using gas storage facilities in Ukraine to store their gas. It has been reported TASS.
“European gas traders are increasingly using gas storage facilities in Ukraine, this will strengthen Europe’s energy security,” he said.
Šefčović pointed out that this was achieved through “active dialogue between traders and European Union-Ukraine cooperation”.
At the end of May, Russian Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov announced that Western countries did not stop To get Russian gas and oil, but now they’re doing it in a roundabout way.
On December 5 last year, the European Union’s embargo on offshore oil supplies from Russia went into effect. The G7 countries, the EU and Australia have imposed an upper cap on the price of Russian oil supplied by sea for their ships and territories at US$60 per barrel.
before the West suspicious The effectiveness of sanctions due to the increase in Russia’s oil revenues.