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[โ€“] Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They don't have destroyed the own infrastructure, the destroyed the infastructure that carried gas to the EU. The gas bill of Russian consumers is less than $1.50 per month

[โ€“] yogthos@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

The pipelines were built by Russia at the behest of Germany though, and it cost Russia billions to do that. Destroying this infrastructure to cut themselves off from being able to sell gas to Europe seems far fetched.