Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Western countries are trying to shift responsibility for their own mistakes in the economy and energy to Russia.

"The situation in the energy sphere is deteriorating as a result of rude, non-market measures, including administrative pressure on our company Gazprom in some European countries," the Russian leader said.

Earlier it was reported that the Ministry of Economics of the Federal Republic of Germany instructed to transfer a subsidiary of the Russian holding Gazprom Germany under the management of the Federal Network Agency.