Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia is open to peaceful solutions to the truce in the energy field with Ukraine, but it requires lifting Western sanctions and ensuring the safety of maritime navigation in order to achieve stability in the global market and reduce energy prices, stressing Moscow’s readiness to discuss gas supplies to Europe if the necessary quantities are available and serve its interests.
AI-generated summary
The statements relate to efforts to reach an energy truce between Russia and Ukraine amid ongoing tensions since the start of the conflict, with Moscow linking any progress to lifting sanctions and ensuring the safety of sea routes.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on the statements made by US President Donald Trump regarding reaching an energy truce between Russia and Ukraine, stressing that Moscow is open to peaceful solutions and communicating with the American side, stressing at the same time that lifting Western sanctions and ensuring the safety of maritime navigation are the real key to satisfying the global market and reducing energy prices.
Peskov also expressed Moscow's readiness to discuss the issue of Russian gas supplies to Europe, if that was in Russia's interest and the necessary gas quantities were available. He added that large quantities of Russian gas are currently flowing into alternative directions. This comes in the midst of a systematic European media and political disinformation campaign against Russia, according to Moscow's position, which included fabricating fabricated security events in order to reinforce fears of the Russian threat and justify further spending of money in Ukraine and raising military budgets.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Negotiations between Russia and the United States on the terms of the energy truce will continue
Likely · Within weeks
The sanctions file will remain a major obstacle to any progress in the energy file
Very likely · Within months

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