“There are a lot of questions to this statement... First of all, why should it happen, is it a partial reduction?

Do they expect Russia to turn off their gas for some reason?

That is, they demonized Russia so much,” the analyst said.

He also expressed the opinion that Europe can partially “survive” without a certain amount of gas, but in this case it will be forced to switch to coal and refuse to achieve all the climate and environmental goals set.

“If we talk about halving gas supplies, then no one can replace Russia here.

And they probably won’t be able to consume even that much coal now,” the expert concluded.

Earlier, the head of the EC, Ursula von der Leyen, said that Europe is in a safe situation "in the event of a partial disruption or further reduction of gas supplies by Gazprom."