In Germany, the deadlines for the refusal of Russian energy sources were announced.
< p>Germany will completely stop buying Russian coal from August 1, and Russian oil from December 31, 2022, marking a major change in the country's energy sources.
This was announced by Deputy Finance Minister Jörg Kukis at a conference in Sydney, writes Reuters.
“In a few weeks, we will abandon Russian coal. Everyone knows the history of the Druzhba oil pipeline, which was already a tool of the Soviet empire over Eastern Europe. Getting rid of this dependence is not a simple matter, but this is what we will achieve in a few months,” Kukis said at the forum.
According to him, the main task for the government is to The WG will be filling in the huge hole that will remain when the European Union refuses the 158 billion cubic meters of gas supplied by Russia per year.
He also noted that earlier Germany imported 40% of coal and 40% of oil from Russia.< /p>
Kukis said that although Germany is focused on the transition to zero emissions and has recently introduced legislation to accelerate the development of renewable energy projects, gas will still be important for the transition.
As a reminder, ” Gazprom “stopped Nord Stream 1 for 10 days, allegedly for “annual repairs.” However, over the past two years, Gazprom has been purposefully drying up the EU gas market and reducing gas supplies to the EU for any reason.
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