{"id":1087610,"date":"2025-02-01T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1087610"},"modified":"2025-02-01T12:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T10:21:16","slug":"lithuania-warns-the-eu-against-returning-to-purchasing-russian-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/lithuania-warns-the-eu-against-returning-to-purchasing-russian-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania warns the EU against returning to purchasing Russian gas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lithuanian parliamentary speaker Saulius Skvernelis believes that the EU&#8217;s return to importing Russian gas would be a serious mistake.<br><br>This is being reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delfi.lt\/ru\/news\/politics\/skvernyalis-vozobnovlenie-postavok-rossiyskogo-gaza-bylo-by-oshibkoy-i-orudiem-shantazha-120083208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Delfi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his opinion, Europe has already found alternative sources of supply, so resuming purchases would only strengthen the Russian military industry and create risks of energy blackmail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier it was reported that some European officials have begun discussing the possibility of resuming Russian gas imports as part of a potential peaceful settlement of the war in Ukraine. At the same time, Lithuanian Energy Minister \u017dygimantas Vai\u010di\u016bnas emphasized that the country has no plans to resume purchases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian parliamentary speaker Saulius Skvernelis believes that the EU&#8217;s return to importing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1087611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,36418,36415],"tags":[78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1087610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en-2","category-11473-news-en","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lithuania warns the EU against returning to purchasing Russian gas - 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