“Germany within a few months made itself completely independent of Russian oil, Russian gas and coal.

We have signed agreements with new partners," TASS quoted him as saying.

According to Scholz, energy security has been achieved through filled energy storage facilities and European solidarity.

Earlier, Ditte Jule Jorgensen, Director General of the European Commission for Energy, in an interview with The Washington Post, said that the European Union would not be able to acquire independence from Russian fuel supplies until it managed to reduce its own energy consumption.

The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, admitted that the well-being of the European Union was based on cheap energy resources from Russia.