Serbia secures gas deal with Russia.

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Serbia secures gas deal with Putin, as West boycotts Russia
Serbian president refuses to explicitly condemn Russian invasion of Ukraine, has not joined Western sanctions on Moscow.

Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic has announced that he has secured an “extremely favourable” three-year natural gas supply deal with Russia, amid efforts by the European Union to phase out Russian energy supplies.

“What I can tell you is that we have agreed on the main elements that are very favourable for Serbia,” the Serbian president said after clinching the deal during a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

“We agreed to sign a three-year contract, which is the first element of the contract that suits the Serbian side very well,” he said.

Vucic claims he wants to take Serbia into the European Union but has spent recent years cementing ties with Russia, a longtime ally. He has also refused to explicitly condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and his country has not joined Western sanctions against Moscow.

Russia’s deal with Serbia follows after Moscow cut off gas exports to EU members Finland, Poland, and Bulgaria.

The gas deal is likely to be signed during a visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to Belgrade early in June – a rare visit by a ranking Russian official to a European country since the invasion of Ukraine began in February.

Despite reports of the atrocities in Ukraine due to the invasion, Vucic and other Serbian leaders have been complaining of Western pressure to join sanctions against Russia.

Serbian officials say the Balkan country must resist such pressure, even if it means abandoning the goal of joining the EU.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/29/serbia-ignores-eu-sanctions-secures-gas-deal-with-putin

Europe is crippled by the astronomical increases in fuel costs. These increases have led to increases in the costs of everything else.
Pushing Russia into a proxy war has profited nobody but the Russophobes who sought to destroy the growing trade co-operation between Russia and the EU for their own benefit. This is tantamount to treachery against the EU by US profiteers.
If Russia secures all of Ukraine, with its wealth of agricultural and mineral resources, then the EU might realize what a bum steer Biden has provided and act to collapse the ponzi-scheme of NATO protectionism .