Putin threatens to let Europe 'freeze' over winter, raising risk of energy rationing

September 09, 2022

"We will not supply gas, oil, coal, heating oil — we will not supply anything," Putin said. But Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday again threatened to completely stop all supplies, a move which he hinted would leave Europe to "freeze." "We will not supply gas, oil, coal, heating oil — we will not supply anything," Putin said. "We would only have one thing left to do: as in the famous Russian fairy tale, we would let the wolf's tail freeze," he said. "The fox would hop around the desperate and hungry wolf saying "freeze, freeze, the wolf's tail" until the ice hole froze trapping the wolf in the ice.