"If Germany refuses to buy Russian gas, it is quite obvious that Russia would search for other partners such as Turkey or China. And after all we would have to buy gas from these countries, but it still would be Russian. We would never be able to compensate for it," Chrupalla said.
"It is still unclear to whom we will sell gas, since we are importing it. The 95% of gas reserves, which we have now [in the gas storage facilities] do not belong to us. They belong to companies that can sell them at a better price," Chrupalla added.
Nord Stream Incident
"Sweden and Denmark are investigating attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines. Germany is not currently involved in the investigation. And even if Sweden has information about what happened, it cannot say about it. Of course, this is not the kind of transparency we call for. Russia should be involved in the investigation of the incident, as well as independent parties. This is what we demand, but the German government does not respond," Chrupalla said.