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Russia-Ukraine crisis: Europe cannot end Russia energy dependence overnight, says Scholz

BERLIN: Europe will end its energy dependence on

Russia

but to do so from one day to the next would plunge it into a recession, risking hundreds of thousands of jobs and entire industrial sectors, German Chancellor

Olaf Scholz

said on Wednesday.

"Sanctions should not hurt European states harder than the Russian leadership," Scholz told the

Bundestag

lower house of parliament.
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