German Foreign Minister Annalene BurbockBERLIN, Mar 10German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock urged to «keep cool» when discussing a possible embargo on energy imports from Russia. She noted that if such a measure were not prepared, there would be difficulties with the mobility of citizens, hospitals would not work without electricity. “This is exactly the destabilization that the Russian president would like. Therefore, in these difficult times, even if it breaks the heart, we must remain calm on this issue. This means doing everything as quickly as possible for energy efficiency, a large-scale reduction in imports of fossil raw materials from Russia,» Burbock said at a press conference with Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti in Pristina.Europeans will lose their jobs due to sanctions against Russia, Medvedev said. She also noted that «it makes no sense to impose sanctions when we have to say that we cannot withstand them, we will cancel them.» The minister explained that if there was a way to stop the military operation tomorrow, «we would have done it today.» «But the truth is that the Russian president has enough reserves, including in the issue of fossil raw materials, to continue the bombing for months. If we passed an embargo on imports that would stop this war tomorrow, then we would do it,» the minister said. She noted that vice-chancellor, economy minister Robert Habek is working «tirelessly» to find alternative sources of Russian oil, gas and coal as soon as possible. According to her, «it would be a real escape from responsibility» if politicians began to demand to stop the use of Russian energy resources, arguing that this could stop the operation. “Unfortunately, we cannot do this. Therefore, the task of politicians, through a tough sanctions regime that we can keep in force, is to isolate the Russian president further,” she added. The minister said that Russia could try to destabilize other countries, “for example Moldova». “There will be an attempt to wage a (hybrid war) by splitting countries, splitting our cohesion, by spreading fake news. And what would it mean now to completely stop imports. If we now stopped any energy imports to Germany or other European countries, this would mean, that we would not have electricity and heating in a couple of weeks,» the minister added. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» How anti-Russian sanctions will hit the countries of the former USSR For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces only strike military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia stressed.
