The head of Eni said that Italy will be able to survive the winter without gas from Russia

It is reported by RIA Novosti.

According to Descalzi, the country is not yet fully prepared to refuse gas supplies from Russia.

“If they (gas supplies. -

) stopped now, we would not be ready.

We will start to be ready in the fall - winter of 2022/2023.

We need to finalize all the agreements that we have built over the past four to five months,” the head of Eni believes.

The head of the oil group believes that it is possible to survive the winter without Russian gas under the conditions of the “worst-case scenario”, provided that supplies from other countries are established.

Earlier, the Italian energy company Eni announced that it had received a notification from the Russian Gazprom that it was ready to deliver only 50% of the ordered volume of gas to it.

On June 18, Bloomberg reported that cuts in natural gas supplies from Russia have forced Europe to start drawing on gas reserves for the winter.

The decline in supplies affected France, Italy, Austria and Germany.