It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Minister's statement, which he made, presenting in Berlin a new initiative aimed at energy saving.

“As for the support of people who need it, I clearly indicated what is ahead of us and what is already partly a reality, but not yet completely arrived.

It must be made clear that we are facing a very difficult autumn and a very difficult winter.

Both compensation packages of laws that we, as a government, have created, contain the answers,” he said.

Earlier, German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock said during a press conference in Kyiv that Germany was reducing its dependence on Russian energy carriers to zero.

According to her, "this is forever."

After that, a member of the Bundestag committee on climate protection and energy, Steffen Kotre, noted that Germany's complete rejection of Russian gas, which Burbock claims, is impossible and inappropriate.

Perhaps the minister's "emotions got the better of reason."