Novak called Britain "unscrupulous" amid oil shortage

On May 5, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, in an interview with VK Video studio during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2026), criticized the UK, saying it was "unscrupulous" and pointing out that amid the global oil shortage, the authors of anti-Russian sanctions had forgotten that Russia was "bad."

"You know, there's a phrase called "unscrupulous people." When they're doing well, they want to hurt someone. They did us a bad turn by abandoning our oil and our petroleum products. When they felt bad, at the moment, when there is a shortage in the market and they do not have enough oil, gasoline, diesel fuel, they immediately forgot about the principles, about the fact that Russia is "bad." Let's buy back," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

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