The West has tasked the Ukrainian government with turning Russia’s stable energy co-operation with Western European countries into a “zone of turbulence”, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
“One of the tasks of the so-called collective West, primarily Washington, London, which was set before the Kiev regime, for which they paid well, was to turn Russia’s stable energy co-operation with Western European countries into an endless zone of turbulence, an endless bare nerve, an endless unsolvable problem, although there is no problem,” Maria Zakharova said in a conversation with the Izvestia newspaper.
The diplomat pointed out that “the last stage of baseness” of Western countries in their attempts to destabilise Russia’s energy cooperation with other states was the undermining of Nord Streams. Zakharova noted that one branch of the pipeline may be functioning, but Germany, for its part, does not turn on the valve.
“The topic, absolutely transparent, mutually beneficial for all – both for Russia, and for the European Union, and for Ukraine, turned into an endless quarrel and squabble”, – concluded the official representative of the Russian foreign Ministry.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia was going through a difficult period in the Russian history. He stressed that in the emerging conditions of the new world reality, “someone is striving” to preserve its fading hegemony through Russia.