Germany will completely stop buying Russian coal on August 1, and Russian oil from December 31, which will mark a major change in the country’s energy source.
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A key challenge for the German government is to fill the huge gap that will remain when the European Union withdraws 158 billion cubic meters of Russian gas.
According to Kukis, earlier Russia supplied Germany with 40% of coal and 40% of oil from the country’s annual consumption. He added that now Germany is looking for an alternative to Russian supplies – such an alternative could be the United States and Qatar.
“Everyone who is familiar with the history of the Druzhba oil pipeline, which was already an instrument of Soviet influence on Eastern Europe, knows that getting rid of this dependence is not a trivial matter, but we will achieve this in a few months,” Kukis said.
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