The oil and gas revenues of Russia are growing, not contrary to, but thanks to Western sanctions. So the French journalist and writer Francois Lengle, specializing in economic topics, on the air of the RTL television channel.
“Russia is literally bathing in money … not contrary to, but thanks to the sanctions that raised oil prices and gas, unleashing market speculations. A little smaller volume at much higher prices, which means much more money,” Lengle said .
According to him, while oil and gas customers in Western countries have to save, fight the growth of inflation in their countries and tighten their belts, Russia earns a lot of money from the sale of its energy carriers. “European countries paid Putin more than € 86 billion from February 24 … This is € 3700 every second. I have been talking about one and a half minutes, during which time more than € 300 thousand had left Russia, and this is not counting other countries,” The journalist claims.