Thus, America and Europe have shown solidarity with Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.
The United States and the European Union have announced a new joint initiative to address the energy security emergency to secure energy supplies to the EU and Ukraine. This is stated in a joint statement by the EU and the US.
“We are uniting to reduce Europe's dependence on Russian energy. We will not subsidize Putin's brutal attack on Ukraine. Putin is using the money from the sale of energy resources for 'his war machine,'” he said. Joe Biden.
The initiative confirms the intention to get rid of Europe's energy dependence on Russia by 2027. Among the measures – increasing the supply of liquefied natural gas from the United States to Europe, coordination of European countries in preparation for the next winter season. In particular, we are talking about the development of liquefied gas terminals in both the United States and Europe, the filling of European gas storage facilities by at least 90% by November 1 each year, the development of clean energy.
To prepare for the next heating season, the US and the EU will work to attract an additional 15 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas to the EU in 2022. An EU energy platform is also being set up to sum up Europeans' energy demand from April to October 2022.
A joint working group of the White House and the EU President's Office will work on the initiative.
We will remind, earlier the countries of the European Union didn't come to an agreement at discussion of a ban on the Russian oil, gas and coal. Germany and the Netherlands are blocking the issue of refusing to import oil from Russia. Germany and the Netherlands have said the bloc is too dependent on Russian oil and gas, so they cannot decide on a ban.
