French Energy Minister: We have been ready and preparing for Russian gas cut-off

France's Energy Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher said on Wednesday that Russia is using gas as a weapon of war "as we anticipated".

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 Russia is further reducing French supplies based on that supposition. 

France has been ready and preparing for such a scenario.

The country already reducing its exposure to Russian gas imports to 9% - down from roughly double the amount before the Russia-Ukraine conflict.