Oil. Archival photoMOSCOW, 23 May. Norwegian Foreign Secretary Eivind Wad Petersson responded to the proposal of Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki to share profits from oil and gas exports. ed.) has fallen,” he said in a written response to VG. Petersson clarified that we are talking about a decrease of about 550 billion Norwegian kroner (56 billion dollars. — Approx. ed.), partly due to the fall of the stock market. «This unfair»Earlier, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki offered Norway to share the profits from oil and gas exports. «Norway's additional profit from oil and gas will exceed one hundred billion euros…», he said, meeting with Polish youth. «Dear Norwegian friends, it's not fair,» the prime minister added.The EC withheld 100 million euros due to Poland's failure to comply with the court decisionIncrease assistance to UkraineEarlier, Polish Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak called on the European Union to increase the military assistance fund to Ukraine. «We also talked about the support we provide to Ukraine. I raised the issue of finance for my part. estimate, but this opinion is also shared by other states, the amount, increased to two billion euros, is decidedly low,” Blaszczak told reporters in Brussels, where the meeting of the heads of the EU military departments was held. He noted that only Poland provided Ukraine with more than for a billion euros. «Our donation, which we have already donated, already exceeds one billion euros, so the Polish donation alone is half the amount provided for in the fund. And we remember that this fund was organized to finance other purposes, such as missions of the European Union states. So that with full confidence, this amount should be higher,» he added.Slovakia announced the imminent launch of the Slovak-Polish gas pipelineRise in energy prices and a special operation in Ukraine The measures mainly affected the financial sector and the supply of high-tech products, but calls to reduce dependence on Russian energy resources began to sound louder in Europe, and many brands announced their withdrawal from Russia. The Kremlin called these restrictions an economic war, but noted the readiness for such a development of events. The Bank of Russia takes measures to stabilize the situation on the foreign exchange market; payments for gas supplies to unfriendly countries were transferred to rubles. The government also prepared a plan to counter restrictive measures, which includes about a hundred initiatives. The volume of its funding will be about a trillion rubles. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian army strikes only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. The main goal of the operation in the department was called the liberation of Donbass.
