“Mobile phones across Europe could go offline this winter if power cuts or rationing affect parts of mobile networks across the region,” it said.

It is noted that telecom operators are working with European governments to make sure they have a plan to ensure the provision of critical services in times of crisis.

Earlier, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that the European economy had “shot itself in the lungs” with the policy of sanctions and was suffocating.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro expressed confidence that European countries and the United States are committing suicide by imposing anti-Russian sanctions.