According to the Serbian President, "the market will be canceled"BELGRADE, August 27.
/tass/. Europe will not survive the crisis in Ukraine if Russia's special operation in this country lasts another year. This was stated on Saturday by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in a televised address to the nation.
"The market will be canceled, everything will disappear. If the Russians are going to wage war like this slowly and slowly, and it will continue for a year or more, then next year there will be no one who would survive this in Europe, including us. This year somehow, the next year, the next winter - write is gone! I'm sorry that I'm telling you the truth that others won't tell, but, Lord have mercy, the price for gas in August is $ 4 thousand!" said Vucic.
Earlier, he said that Europe will face a cataclysm and power outages due to the global energy crisis. He also said that in the next eight months Serbia will be in an undeclared state of emergency, the situation in the country is the most difficult in 10 years. The President noted that due to the heat, the generation of electricity at the hydroelectric power station has stopped, and the price of energy carriers is growing. According to him, it is increasingly difficult for Belgrade to cope with such a situation, given that cheap Russian gas covers only 62% of the country's needs.
Vucic predicted that the exchange price for gas in the coming winter could reach $ 6 thousand per 1 thousand cubic meters. Earlier, he informed that during telephone talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he agreed on the main issues of the gas contract. The contract will be signed for three years, the price will be calculated according to the oil formula, the cost of 1 thousand cubic meters of gas will be from $ 360 to $ 410. According to Vucic, the price for 2.2 billion cubic meters of gas is the best in Europe, the question remains of the price for additional volumes - 800 million cubic meters.
