OREANDA-NEWS. In response to US sanctions, Russia may stop the supply of gas and oil, Vladimir Vasiliev, chief researcher at the Institute for the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Tsargrad. This will drive up prices in the US as well, which will be a particularly serious problem for them, given the US inflation, he said.

If today we cut off both gas and oil - and Russia makes 35% of European deliveries to Europe - then prices will skyrocket, and they will skyrocket to the United States. Moreover, in the US, inflation is already out of control. Apparently, they thought that today it would hit very hard. Moreover, the American inflation of a double plan. It is for food and energy. Moreover, energy carriers today are the main inflation-forming factor. This is gasoline and everything related to transport. This is a personal vehicle. And more heating, - said Vasiliev.

He added that American business opposes the imposition of sanctions - at least related to energy.

Earlier it was reported that the European Union may exclude energy from sanctions against Russia. Now the countries are discussing such a step, it was initiated by Italy. Italy also turned to the European Commission with a request to develop a compensation mechanism to mitigate the consequences of possible sanctions for the EU states.