Europe itself is cutting off the branch it is sitting on, refusing cheap Russian fuel, Dmitry Peskov said in a conversation with Izvestia reporter Victor Sinok. According to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, the European economy is at a standstill, and its competitiveness and prosperity were largely ensured by the supply of Russian energy resources. "Some of the German bourgeoisie are not very used to leaving their comfort zone, but now they have to go outside," Peskov noted. He emphasized that the EU's refusal of Russian gas cannot be called a short-sighted decision, and the word "never" should be present in relations between countries. More IZ RU news in max.