Kremlin says Russia does not use energy resources as a weapon

Russia does not use its oil and gas as a weapon, a Kremlin spokesman said on Friday in response to comments by a U.S. official. President Joe Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Thursday that "Russia has a history of using energy as a tool of coercion, as a political weapon." Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow disagreed with those comments.

Russia does not use its oil and gas as a weapon, a Kremlin spokesman said on Friday in response to comments by a U.S. official. President Joe Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Thursday that "Russia has a history of using energy as a tool of coercion, as a political weapon."

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow disagreed with those comments. "We are convinced that this is a wrong assessment," Peskov told a daily conference call with reporters.

He said it was the United States which, by imposing sanctions, threatened to contribute to imbalances in the European energy market.

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