Blinken calls to Europe: Russia is using energy as a weapon, giving up on it

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that it is crude for European countries to stop relying on Russian energy, especially now when the war in Ukraine continues.

Speaking at a joint conference with Estonia's prime minister, Kaya Kallas, said this is a “an opportunity, not only important but necessary to finally remove -- for many countries in Europe, Russian energy dependence because Russia uses it as weapons”.

Meanwhile, Kallas has said that Russia should be completely isolated from the free world, adding that Putin's <x0 violence should be in correlate with further sanctions and also the isolation decisions”.

Also, it has called on NATO to work for an up-to-date subx0 defence strategy in our” region.