Swedish economist Anders Aslund condemned the position of the FRG authorities over the new wave of gas confrontation between the Russian "Gazprom" and the Ukrainian "Naftogaz". He called shame the behavior of Berlin in this fuel scandal. "Gazprom refuses to recognize the decision of international arbitration with Naftogaz, and the German government blames both sides," wrote the Swede in his microblog on Twitter. One of his subscribers suggested that Germany thus tries to sit on two chairs at once. "Feeding a bear and playing democracy is a bad idea.". The bear remains hungry, and the trust of the Western allies decreases, "the user believes.. Another notes: "While Washington is drifting, people do not seem to notice that Berlin is also drifting. The Berlin vision of the future seems very opaque to me ". On Monday, March 5, German government official Steffen Seibert said that the decision of Gazprom to cut gas to Ukraine is irritating to the European establishment. The German urged both parties to comply with the decisions of the Stockholm Arbitration and ensure the continuity of supplies to Europe. What, in fact, does not cause any censures in the EU itself. Seibert also stressed that he does not see a link between the issue of gas supply to Ukraine and the construction of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline,.

The same day the chairman of the board of the Russian concern Alexey Miller said that he sent a notice to Kiev about the termination of all existing contracts, both for the supply of fuel to Nezalezhny and its transit to the European recipient countries. In the opinion of the representative of Gazprom, the Arbitrage was incorrect and is prejudged in passing a verdict on February 28, according to which our company must pay $ 2.56 billion to the Ukrainian side, and also start delivering blue fuel to Ukraine, obliging the latter to buy 5 billion cubic meters of gas from Moscow every year.