Video Russia uses gas as a “weapon of war”, we must prepare to “do without”, warns Emmanuel Macron in his July 14 interview

Emmanuel Macron’s warning is straightforward. “Russia uses energy, as it uses food, as a weapon of war”said the French president during a television interview, Thursday, July 14. “We must now prepare for a scenario where we have to do without Russian gas entirely”, he added. He called on the French to prepare for the war in Ukraine to last. And foresees a summer and an early fall “very hard”.

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“We have to put ourselves in the worst-case scenario, because it exists. At any time, Russia can completely interrupt its gas deliveries”, had warned a few days earlier the Minister of Ecological Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher. You have to “prepare for a Russian gas cut”had estimated the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire.