On October 7, CGTN correspondent Evgenia Strygina interviewed First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Energy Committee Igor Ananskikh on the eighth round of EU sanctions against Russia.

The Russian energy official said that the European Commission's recent series of actions are related to the U.S. demand to abandon Russian energy. The U.S. is the beneficiary of the series of EU sanctions, with higher liquefied natural gas prices and an increase in gas sales from U.S. to Europe.