So far, European countries either refuse Russian gas or reduce its supply, Serbia agrees with the Russian Federation on a new contract. Prices for deliveries, according to Serbian officials, will be significantly lower than market – $ 400 per thousand cubic meters.
The Russian BBC service writes that Gazprom will not receive hundreds of millions of dollars of profit a year – this is the price of loyalty, experts say.
The new cost of Russian gas for Serbia was announced by the deputy prime minister of the country Zoran Mikhailovich on the air of the TV Happy channel: “This is about $ 400, that is, 3-4 times lower than that of other countries that buy gas in the market.”
On the eve of the presidents of Russia and Serbia, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Vuchich, on the phone, discussed a new contract for the supply of gas. Russia and Serbia conclude a new contract in conditions when other European countries refuse to supply Russian gas.
“Russia will continue to uninterruptly supply natural gas to Serbia,” the results of the meeting on the Kremlin website described. Vuchich said that Russia will supply 2.2 billion cubic meters of gas per year at the “most favorable price in Europe.”
Serbia, according to Vuchich, also asked to supply her with an additional 800 million cubic meters of gas per year. Mikhailovich added that the parties coordinate prices for these volumes.
Serbia remains the only Candidate country for EU membership, which has not joined Western sanctions against Russia. Vuchich repeatedly said that he does not support the imposition of sanctions against Moscow. This will “put national interests at risk,” he explained.