The state leader at a joint meeting with the current Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, noted that today in Germany they receive gas from Russia "five times cheaper."
“Let a German citizen open his wallet, look there and say, answer his own question: is he ready to pay 3-5 times more for electricity, for gas supply, for heat?
If he doesn’t want to do this, let him say thanks to Mr. Schroeder, because this is the result of his work,” Putin said.
So he answered a question about criticism of the former chancellor of Germany after the appearance of information about the entry of Schroeder into the board of directors of the Russian Gazprom.
It will be proposed to elect members of the Board of Directors at the meeting of shareholders of the company, which will be held on June 30.