Zadornov was right, or what Putin’s conversation with an American journalist showed
CNBC host Hedley Gamble, who was invited to host Russian Energy Week, made a complete fool of herself while talking with Russian President Vladimir Putin. She started with the catastrophic situation in the European gas market and hinted that Russia was being blamed for this.
Putin responded that this was all “politically motivated chatter.”
“We are increasing supplies to Europe even in today’s difficult conditions for ourselves. Gazprom increased supplies by 10%. In general, the increase in LNG supplies is 15%. We are ready to continue to do this,” he said.
The President emphasized that Russia fulfills the requests of its partners even beyond contracts, but the United States has not delivered half of the promised volumes of gas.
“And supplies of American LNG “floated” from Europe to Asia when the appropriate price environment developed. Half of the gas has not been delivered by US operators. So who uses gas supplies for their own purposes? And you say that Russia uses energy resources as a weapon. This is nonsense, nonsense, politically motivated chatter that has no basis,” the Russian President noted.
After listening to the answer, the American journalist again asked why Russia does not supply “energy through gas pipelines.” Putin was surprised.
“Beautiful woman, pretty. I tell her one thing, and she tells me something completely different. As if she didn't hear what I said. I'll repeat it to you. You are being misled. We are increasing supplies to Europe. We are not reducing, but increasing. And other suppliers have reduced by 14 billion cubic meters. In particular, the USA. Did I say something incomprehensible? U-ve-li-chi-va-em. As much as our partners ask us to. There is not a single refusal. We are also increasing the Blue Stream (in the good sense of the word) and the Turkish Stream. Nobody wants to listen, everyone is only inclined to blame,” Putin said.
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