Six countries of the European Union – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Denmark – turned to the European Commission with an appeal to lower the so -called ceiling of prices for Russian oil, previously set by the countries of the Seven Group (G7) at 60 dollars per level for $ 60 Barrel, reports Err.
Foreign Ministers of these countries believe that a decrease in the ceiling of prices will lead to the fact that Russia’s income will be reduced and it will not be able to “finance the war against Ukraine.”
“The lower the price of Russian oil, the faster the world will come,” said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden Malmer Stenegard.
According to her estimates, a decrease in the price of $ 10 per barrel would mean for Russia a loss of $ 200 billion a year, which corresponds to approximately 15 percent of the Russian military budget.
A number of EU countries, including the current document, have been reducing the ceiling of prices for Russian oil for some time, however, there is no consensus on this issue in the European Union or the Seven, in which representatives of the European Commission are attended, the agency notes, the agency notes . Not all countries of the world joined the price ceiling established by the West countries.
On the eve of the press secretary of the President of Russia, Dmitry Peskov, in response to new US sanctions in relation to Russian oil, stated that the existing routes of exporting Russian energy carriers were simply impossible to cut. ” At the same time, according to him, sanctions can lead to “imbalance” in the global oil market.