“The task is to find a replacement (gas supplies from Russia. -

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And previous trips to Qatar, Norway, Canada have not yet brought a replacement, ”TASS quoted him as saying.

Söder noted that due to rising prices, the situation with the provision of energy is becoming more complicated.

Earlier, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced plans to negotiate with Canada on the supply of raw materials to replace Russian.

As the newspaper Die Zeit later wrote, Scholz's attempts to negotiate gas supplies with Canada were unsuccessful: at current gas prices, exports from Canada to Europe simply do not pay off, and it is not known whether he can pay off in the future.