“Europe has been thinking about life and production for decades, based on stable and cheap energy supplies from Russia,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

According to him, the conflict in Ukraine has greatly changed the well-being of Europe, based on cheap energy, and now “the situation has become terrible”

At the same time, the Japanese prime minister added that his country is in a similar position, as it depends on supplies from the Middle East.

Earlier, Kishida stated that the world is at a historical turning point.