Draghi Says Russia Only Offers ‘Lies’ to Explain Gas Cuts

Mario Draghi with Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv, on June 16.Photographer: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images
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Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said Russian statements that its gas cuts to Europe are due to technical reasons are lies, a view he said is shared by several partners including Germany.

“We have been told the reason for gas cuts across Europe is technical, but both Germany, and us, and others, believe these are lies,” Draghi told reporters after he met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during a visit to Kyiv with Germany’s Olaf Scholz and France’s Emmanuel Macron.