Pushkov criticized Johnson’s attempts to blame Putin for the energy crisis

MOSCOW, 29 Aug – PRIME. Attempts by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to shift the responsibility for the sharp rise in energy prices in the United Kingdom to Russian President Vladimir Putin are unjustified, Senator Alexei Pushkov said on his Telegram channel.

“What nonsense? Did Putin impose sanctions that hit the energy sector? Did he persist in pushing for the cancellation of Nord Stream 2? Did Putin call for replacing Russian gas with American LNG, proving that it is much cleaner and generally wonderful, since it consists of “molecules of freedom “? Did Putin start a scandalous story with Canadian sanctions against a gas turbine that Ottawa did not want to return to the owner for a long time? And so on and so forth,” Pushkov stressed.

According to him, in fact, Johnson is trying to justify the mediocrity of his decisions, which he made along with other members of the “big seven”, “calling them to show their pectoral muscles to Putin.”

“To show, however, it turned out to be nothing. So he is raging …”, the senator concluded.