Story thread · 16 reports / 16 sources

Scott Bessent met with Russia’s finance minister. Then he said Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy sites were helping fuel a global ‘energy shock.’

meduza.io · 10dShare

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil infrastructure one of the causes of the global energy crisis. He spoke after a meeting of G20 finance ministers in North Carolina, to which Anton Siluanov, Russia’s finance minister, was invited for the first time since the start of the war.

First report: Ukraine's strikes on Russian oil partly fueled global 'energy shock,' Bessent says — kyivindependent.com, 12d