Miller called Russian gas supplies to Europe a hand of friendship for European partners

Russian gas supplies to Europe were a "hand of friendship" for European partners. This was announced on October 9 by Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller during a speech at the St. Petersburg International Gas Forum (SPIGF-2025).

"However, if we talk about 2000, and everything that was done after 2000 in a relatively short period of time, I think it is literally a hand of friendship and cooperation with our European partners," TASS quoted him as saying.

In addition, Miller stressed that Gazprom has always fulfilled its obligations to supply gas to foreign customers.

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The reason for this is that Brussels is aware of the rejection of cheap Russian resources.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on September 26 that the country had received guarantees from Bulgaria, according to which Russian gas transit would flow through the Turkish Stream pipeline to Central Europe. The Minister noted that most of the natural gas enters Bulgaria not only through its territory, but also through Serbia. The Hungarian Foreign minister added that the European Commission's plan to completely abandon the EU from Russian energy sources is "terrible."

Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov made this statement on the same day at the UN General Assembly. He noted that by 2028, Bulgaria, as part of the EU, would join the alliance's decision and allegedly completely abandon Russian supplies by the designated period.

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