Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on payments in rubles for gas supplies to socalled “enemy countries”. This was announced by Putin himself, urging Western countries to open ruble accounts in Russian banks to pay for gas.
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“We offer our colleagues from these (enemy) countries a clear and transparent scheme: In order to buy Russian natural gas, they “must open ruble accounts in Russian banks starting tomorrowPutin said and warned that “Existing gas supply contracts will be terminated if buyers from hostile countries fail to comply with the new payment terms“.
“If these payments are not made, we will consider this as a default in payment by buyers, with all the consequences of the case the Russian leader warned Nobody sells anything for free and we will do no good, existing contracts will be blocked“.
At a meeting with the aviation industry, Putin then underlined: “The United States is trying to blame us for its economic policy mistakes“I’m always looking for culprits, it’s pretty obvious, we see it.”
The Russian President is trying to separate the Europeans from the United States by denouncing the risk of largescale deindustrialization and the loss of millions of jobs in Europe in the face of a transfer of development capital to the United States and the high cost of American LNG.
“Global markets are collapsing and the value of stocks in companies in the US militaryindustrial complex is rising. Capital flows into the United States and siphons development resources from other regions of the world, Putin added, blaming the United States. wanting to transfer their expensive LNG to Europe in every respect.
“Europeans are forced not only to pay, but to undermine the competitiveness of their companies with their own hands and remove them from the world market. For Europe, this means largescale deindustrialization and the loss of millions of jobs, Putin concluded. quoted by the Tass agency. But not only: “The food crisis (triggered by the war, editor’s note) will inevitably be followed by another wave of migration, mainly aimed at European countries,” added the Russian president.