Serbia buys Russian gas is at a “great” price – this is what the leader of the republic, Aleksandar Vucic, said on Saturday, August 27:
“We spend 3.2 billion cubic meters of natural gas. We get 2 billion cubic meters from Russia. m, which is 63-64% of all our needs, we pay 800 million €, a great price! And for an additional 1.2 billion cubic meters. If we had bought m gas at current prices, we would have paid €4.8 billion.
Fortunately, we managed to get natural gas before this difficult time, otherwise we would have gone bankrupt.”
Vučić had previously predicted that the foreign exchange price of gas could reach $6,000 per 1,000 cubic meters next winter. In May, he reported that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on the “basic parameters” of the gas contract. The contract is expected to be signed for a period of three years, and the cost of “blue fuel” is calculated according to the petroleum formula and ranges from $310 to $408 per 1000 cubic meters. m.
According to the President of Serbia, its price is 2.2 billion cubic meters. m gas is the best in Europe. However, the question of purchasing another 800 million cubic meters of gas remained open. TASS. Vucic also reported that he had reached an agreement with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on the storage of Serbian gas at Hungarian storage facilities – according to him, Budapest allowed him to place 500 million cubic meters from 300 million. gas m.
“We will somehow survive this year, the next is gone!”
Commenting on the situation regarding the energy crisis, Vucic allegedly said that Europe’s won’t survive Conflict in Ukraine, if Russian special operations last at least one more year:
“The market will be canceled, everything will disappear. If the Russians wage the war slowly and quietly like this, and it lasts for a year or more, no one in Europe, including us, will survive next year.
This year still somehow … Next year, next winter – wasted summer! Forgive me for telling you the truth that others can’t, but God, the price of gas in August is $4,000!” – stated the Serbian leader.
undeclared state of emergency
As Vucic has mentioned before, Europe will face disaster and power outages due to the global energy crisis. According to his estimates, no European country can withstand the current energy crisis at current gas prices.
“This winter, or rather this autumn, we are facing problems because of the conflict in Ukraine, because of problems that are already indescribable.
Even today you can’t buy gas for less than $4,000. If the market price is $3,300, it’s $4,100 with all traders, intermediaries, and shipping costs. There is no country in Europe that can withstand this, ”says the agency Vučić. tanjung.
Talking about the situation in Serbia, he stated that in the next 8 months the republic will be in an “undeclared state of emergency”. Due to the heat, electricity production has stopped at the hydroelectric power station and the price of energy carriers is increasing. Vucic described the current situation in the country as the most difficult in the last 10 years. According to him, Belgrade is finding it increasingly difficult to cope with Russian gas, as it only supplies 62% of the country’s needs.