But anyone who blackmails Europe with an economic or energy crisis always loses.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia's actions were initially aimed not only at Ukraine, but also at Europe as a whole. Russia is doing everything to ensure that Europeans are left without affordable energy.
He said this on April 7, speaking to the Greek Parliament.
“And we can also push the enemy Russian army away from Ukrainian soil. We can teach Russia and any other potential aggressors once and for all that whoever chooses war always loses. Whoever tries to deprive the independence and destroy the territorial integrity of states always loses. He whoever blackmails Europe with an economic or energy crisis always loses,” the president said.
He also added that Russia's actions were initially directed not only at Ukraine, but at Europe as a whole.
It is Russia that is doing everything to ensure that the Europeans are left without affordable energy. And for energy poverty to become the new reality on the continent. It is Russia that is doing everything to provoke an outbreak of inflation for many nations. Russia last year artificially created a deficit in the European gas market. And now he is doing everything to artificially create a shortage in the global food market,” he said.
Recall, Russia has begun a new deportation of people from southern Ukraine. Already at least tens of thousands of people taken to the territory of the Russian Federation and to the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine – these are residents of Mariupol and other cities and communities that were under the blows of Russian troops.
