If gas buyers from unfriendly states refuse to pay for gas in rubles, Russia will view it as breach of contract, President Vladimir Putin said at the meeting on the situation in the aviation sector.
“If such [ruble] payments are not made, we will consider this to be the buyers’ failure to perform commitments with all ensuing implications,” Putin said.
Putin signed earlier today the decree stipulating acceptance of payments for gas in rubles.
The Kremlin said on Thursday that claims of Putin being misled by his own military only prove how little the US really knows about Russia.
The response came after the White House and the Pentagon suggested that officials were afraid to speak the truth to Putin about the performance of the Russian Army in Ukraine.
Source: Al-Manar English Website
