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Latvia President Egils Levits on what is at stake for his country in Russia's war in Ukraine

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Latvia's Position on Providing Fighter Jets to Ukraine?

How does lapia plan to reduce its dependence on russian energy supplies? And more broadly, how do you think europe can wean itself off of russian oil and gas without jeopardizing the climate change goals that it has? Concerning latvia, we should not overestimate our dependence from russian energy. Approximately ten per cent of the oil is imported from from russia,. So concerning electricity, seven %, seven percent coming from russia. But it is possible also to place this natural gas coming, which comes from russia through eleng and the united states. Has just offered to increase in exports of eleng gas to europe. And we vill also benefit from this

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