OREANDA-NEWS. After the summit with the United States, where the expansion of supplies of liquefied natural gas to the European Union was discussed, the European Commission confirmed its expectations that the EU will remain dependent on energy resources from the Russian Federation until at least 2027. This was announced at a briefing in Brussels by EC spokesman Tim McPhee, TASS reports.

As we said in the previously published RePower EU program, we will depend on carbon fuel from Russia until 2027, he said.

The head of the Department of Economic Cooperation of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Dmitry Birichevsky, expressed the opinion that the rejection of Russian hydrocarbons would lead to serious consequences for the European and world economies. He noted that if Europe, after abandoning Russian oil and gas, establishes supplies with other partners and switches to renewable energy sources, this will be able to replace, at best, only 80% of energy resources.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent an instruction to the government to give a directive to Gazprom to change the currency of payments for natural gas in existing contracts for rubles. According to the head of state, the changes will affect only the currency in which subsequent payments will be made.