Berlin announced plans to “forever” abandon energy resources from Russia

According to the head of the German Foreign Ministry, economic dependence on Russia "does not lead to security,"Therefore, Germany will completely abandon Russian energy sources in the future Annalena Burbock

In the future, Germany will completely and forever refuse energy carriers from Russia. This was stated at a joint conference with the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Kuleba by the head of German diplomacy Annalena Berbock, FAZ reports.

“We are reducing, with all the consequences, our dependence on Russian energy carriers to zero. And this is forever,” she said.

Burbock also stated that there could be no agreements with Russia behind Ukraine's back. In addition, she promised Kyiv support for EU accession, stressing that "no shortcut" is possible here.

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Burbock became the first member of the German Cabinet to visit Ukraine after the start of the Russian special operation on February 24. In mid-April, the Bild newspaper reported that German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier also wanted to come to Kyiv, but Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky refused to accept him. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called the rejection annoying. He also stated that the position of the Ukrainian authorities in relation to Steinmeier interferes with the chancellor's visit to Kyiv. Later, Zelensky phoned Steinmeier, and, according to the German side, the politicians "removed the annoying factors that were in the past."

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Since the beginning of the special operation, the EU countries have introduced five packages of sanctions against Moscow. The restrictions affected, among other things, the top officials of the state, large industrial and financial organizations, the reserves of the Central Bank and the supply of certain types of energy resources. At the same time, the sanctions did not affect the import of Russian oil and gas .

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On May 8, the countries of the G7, which includes Germany, agreed to gradually abandon the import of Russian oil or impose an embargo following the United States . The German Ministry of Economy previously noted that the rejection of Russian oil would be a "heavy burden", but indicated their readiness to take this step.

Scholz has previously indicated that sanctions against Russia can only be lifted after agreement with Ukraine. “We can and are going to lift our sanctions only in agreement with Ukraine. I think many in the Kremlin have not realized this yet. For Russia, this has devastating consequences,” he said.