effort to envision ukraine closer to europe, to envision peace and a thing beyond the war. whether that is really practical is an open question but if you re going to have a conference not talking about weapons and defence budgets, thatis weapons and defence budgets, that is one way to do it.- that is one way to do it. also, there is economic that is one way to do it. also, there is economic importance | there is economic importance that we have all come to know about, as far as ukraine is concerned, in terms of exports, grain and other key food staples which ukraine is a key supplier, all of that will have been part of the discussions, to rebuild the industry is so important to ukraine post the war? ., ., ~ important to ukraine post the war? ., ., ,, ., important to ukraine post the war? ., ., 4 ., “ war? you would like to think euro -e war? you would like to think eur0pe is war? you would like to think europe is not war? you would like to think europe is notjust war? you
specifically, did president zelenskyy s speech in russian, do you have any evidence people heard it at all in moscow? reporter: i think people may be listening and i ll tell you why. there s split screen between what s happen inside the kremlin and what s happening on the streets in russia. i just spoke to a mother and her daughter, and their father and grandfather is in ukraine, and they re here in moscow. they haven t seen each other for three years because of the coronavirus and now they re divided by this war. that is the case for millions. there are so many russians with relatives and loved ones and friends in ukraine and vice versa. i ve heard reporters in ukraine talking about people not believing this was going to happen. same feeling here in russia. people i think today have been shocked. part of the reason they have been is because of these close interconnections between the two countries. that again goes back to this question of whether president putin can persuade people
but we also prepared ourselves for being ready to replace russian fossil fuels with alternative sources. so compared to the last gas crisis that we had when last time russian gas flowed via ukraine was stopped. now we do have terminals in place. now we have interconnections that help neighbouring countries to provide gas by diverse flows. we even have mapped alternative routes for ukraine and moldova if they be cut out of russian gas. so these possibilities are in place, we know what it will cost to us. and we working here at the european commission, i am ready to deliver if leaders, it heads of government will tell us. they ll give me money to do so.
more firmly. but we also prepared ourselves for being ready to replace russian fossil fuels with alternative sources. so compared to the last gas crisis that we had when last time russian gas flowed via ukraine was stopped. now we do have terminals in place. now we have interconnections that help neighbouring countries to provide gas by diverse flows. we even have mapped alternative routes for ukraine and moldova if they be cut out of russian gas. so these possibilities are in place, we know what it will cost to us. and we working here at the european commission, i am ready to deliver if leaders, it heads of government will tell us. they ll give me money to do so. that s the point, isn t it?
so far from weaning yourselves off, as you saw what vladimir putin was doing, you actually embraced his oil and gas even more firmly. but we also prepared ourselves for being ready to replace russian fossil fuels with alternative sources. so compared to the last gas crisis that we had when last time russian gas flowed via ukraine was stopped. now we do have terminals in place. now we have interconnections that help neighbouring countries to provide gas by diverse flows. we even have mapped alternative routes for ukraine and moldova if they be cut out of russian gas. so these possibilities are in place, we know what it will cost to us. and we working here at the european commission, i am ready to deliver if leaders, it heads