German Chancellor Olaf Scholz rejects Vladimir Putin’s request for “unfriendly countries” to pay for Russian gas in rubles.
At a press conference, Scholz said that in most gas deals with Russia there are clauses to pay money in dollars or euros.
Putin has ordered gas to be paid for only in rubles
This also affects Bulgaria
–
On Wednesday, Putin said he had decided to implement a number of measures to pass payments […] for ours supplies of natural gas to the so-called unfriendly countries in Russian rubles“.
Scholz suggested that this was unlikely to happen.
“We’ve looked at this to try to get a general idea. What we’ve learned so far is that there are fixed contracts everywhere that include the currency in which payments are made “Olaf Scholz was quoted as saying by Politico.
–
Ukraine has called on the EU not to pay for Russian gas in rubles
It will be like helping Ukraine with one hand and helping the Russians kill Ukrainians with the other, Kuleba said.
–
“And in most cases it says euro or dollar … and that’s what’s important then.”
Putin’s attempts to pay him in rubles were seen as an attempt to support Russia’s sinking economywhich is affected by a number of sanctions.
–
