LONDON, April 8 (Reuters) - Germany could end Russian oil imports this year, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Friday, signalling the urgency driving Europe's biggest economy to wean itself off energy from Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.
Scholz was responding to a journalist's question about whether he felt a sense of shame that EU countries were paying Russia billions of euros for fossil fuels.
"We are actively working to get independent from the import of (Russian) oil and we think that we will be able to make it during this year," Scholz said during a news conference in London with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.