The special envoy of the Russian president Vladimir Putin for investment and economic cooperation with foreign countries Kirill Dmitriev today compared the refusal of the European Union countries to ease sanctions against Russian oil and oil products with the medieval suicide ritual of the Japanese samurai - seppuku (hara-kiri), TASS reported, quoted by BTA.
„European bureaucrats want to continue the EU's energy seppuku and oppose the decision already adopted by the US to temporarily ease sanctions against Russia in the energy sector in order to stabilize the market. It is better for the EU to admit its strategic energy mistake - the refusal of Russian energy - and to atone for his guilt“, he wrote on the social network “Ex“.
Dmitriev added that getting out of the energy crisis without Russian energy resources is impossible.
A few days ago, the US Treasury Department lifted sanctions on the sale of oil and oil products from Russia loaded on ships until March 12, TASS recalls.