The EU 's recommendation to Ukraine to ban the transportation of Russian oil meets US interests. The US needs the EU to be completely dependent on its energy - Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova shared with TASS.
"I want to inform more that Washington is behind Brussels" - Ms. Zakharova said when asked to comment on Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto's statement that Kiev's ban on Russian oil transportation was coordinated from Brussels.
According to the Russian diplomat, America "needs the EU to be completely dependent on its energy resources. That ensures Washington economic bonuses and political control over the European Union. This is the reason." Because the long-term contracts of EU countries with Russia are so hated by the US, this is the reason why the Nord Stream gas pipeline was destroyed."
Previously, Ukraine stopped transporting oil from Lukoil - Russia's largest private oil and gas company - through Ukrainian territory to Hungary and Slovakia because Kiev blacklisted the Russian company.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto said that Ukraine's blocking of Russian oil flows will weaken the energy security of the two EU member states and directly violate Ukraine's Association Agreement with the EU.
