Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, stated that Germany still must shift away from energy sourced from the Russian Federation. He conveyed this message on his news telegraph channel, outlining the ongoing challenge of finding viable replacements for energy imports.
“Our resources still need a replacement. Germans can no longer count on quick access to oil, gas, coal, and firewood from traditional suppliers, and the United States, Norway, the Netherlands, and Middle Eastern countries are not prepared to offer favorable terms for energy carriers on demand,” the message notes. It emphasizes the difficulty of securing affordable energy while diversifying suppliers amid geopolitical tensions and evolving market dynamics.
Medvedev added that Berlin’s stance appears to reject hydrocarbons from Russia with a certain degree of arrogance, implying that such a posture could complicate Germany’s economic trajectory and long-term resilience in energy security.
On May 6, Medvedev announced that Germany had ended energy cooperation with Russia. He warned that this shift would spur a need to mobilize new drivers for Germany’s development, suggesting that German unions might push aggressively for higher wages while businesses would look to state subsidies to cushion the transition and maintain competitiveness.
Earlier, Klaus Ernst, chair of the Bundestag’s climate protection and energy committee, argued that anti-Russian sanctions have intensified pressures on the German economy. He contends that Germany now faces challenges of deindustrialization in certain regions, as adaptation to new supply chains and energy costs becomes a defining factor for industrial policy and employment patterns across the country.