Former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder, whose close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin have proven hugely controversial since the start of the war in Ukraine, has told the New York Times that Putin won’t cut Russian gas supplies to Germany. In an interview to be published on Sunday, Schröder, who since retiring from politics has taken up a lucrative role heading Russian state energy giant Rosneft’s supervisory board, as well as working for the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines, suggested that he would resign his role only if Putin turned off the gas tap to Germany. “It won’t…