Putin signed a corresponding decree on Thursday. Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi says after Putin’s phone call: “Gas delivery is not in danger”
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi wants to clear up the confusion surrounding the conversion of gas payments from euros to rubles: According to him, the Kremlin has given in to the EU.
By Wednesday night, the confusion was complete: countries like Austria and Germany will have to pay for Russian gas deliveries in rubles instead of euros or dollars in the future or not? And will Russia shut off the gas supply if we don’t? To clarify this issue, first Draghi and then German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called Putin. Then German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit announced that Putin had said gas deliveries would have to be paid for in rubles from April, but stressed “that nothing would change for European contractual partners”.