“The sensible part of the political establishment understands that they won’t be able to break us as they wanted, quickly and briskly, they won’t be able to break us at all, it’s impossible to isolate us politically,” the ambassador said.
He also added that the statements of German politicians in favor of an early embargo on oil, gas, coal from Russia are made "rather for domestic political reasons or to please the Anglo-Saxon mainstream."
“The Germans understand: if gas stops flowing, everything will rise in price, it will be cold.
I think that sane politicians understand that there is something to risk, and the population does not need it at all, ”TASS quoted the diplomat as saying.
On May 10, 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, said that Germany's complete refusal of Russian gas, which Burbock claims, is impossible and inappropriate, perhaps the minister's "emotions got the better of reason."