Washington is aiming to reduce European imports of Russian natural gas to “zero” and replace them with American exports, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright has said.
Currently, Europe buys nearly half of its gas from Russia, he said in a virtual press conference on Thursday.
“We’re driving to move that to zero, and the biggest filler of that hole has been energy exports from the United States,” Wright said. “We want to continue to do that and end all Russian energy imports into the EU.”
Western European nations imposed sweeping sanctions on Russian energy imports following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. The sabotage of the Nord…
Read the full article at RT.COM
