Russian Foreign Ministry explains surge in gas prices in Europe

Director of the Department of Economic Cooperation of the Russian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Birichevsky said that the rapid rise in gas prices in Europe is a consequence of the abandonment of the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

He noted that planned timely commissioning of this gas pipeline met Russian and European interests, but the project became "a hostage of artificial linkage with other political plots," RIA Novosti reports.