Everyone was overwhelmed: the Kremlin's plan to "freeze" Europe has brought Russian multi -billion damage - the media

The plan was very simple: Moscow was convinced that Europeans would not be able to stop Russian energy, so they would be forced to stop Ukraine's support and remove sanctions from the aggressor. But, as it turned out, according to the results of 2023 the Russian budget will lose almost $ 28 billion in gas income due to the loss of the European market. About it writes the edition "Ria-Novosti".

According to experts, Europe will receive about 60 billion cubic meters of gas from the Russian Federation this year, not 85 billion, as previously planned. Moreover, against the background of reducing deliveries, the cost of "blue fuel" will vary at $ 500 per thousand cubic meters, although in 2022, in the midst of the gas crisis, energy was traded at $ 1,500. As a result, only about $ 30 billion will pay from the European market instead of $ 122 billion in the current year of Gazprom.

That is, financial losses will be nearly 90 billion for Gazprom himself and $ 28 billion for the state in the form of unbiased duties. The Kremlin hopes to compensate for the losses from China. In 2023, the Russian Federation will put 22 billion cubic meters of gas to its partner, instead of 15 billion in 2022. And its losses are intended to compensate for the overall increase in the tax burden on Gazprom.

At the end of May, it became known that Vladimir Putin's plan for the construction of an additional gas pipeline "Siberia-2" to increase the supply of raw materials to China, seems to have failed. All because the Chinese authorities are inclined to build a new gas pipeline from Turkmenistan. Also we will remind that now in Russia, a record small volume of gas is produced. According to official data, compared to pre -war levels of production of blue fuel in the country has decreased by 24%.