![]() ![]() The construction of the pipeline was completed last September and its operator says it is already filled with gas and ready to go into use, pending permission from German authorities. ![]() ![]() ![]() The decision drew condemnation and threats from Moscow, where the former Russian president and deputy chair of Russia’s security council Dmitry Medvedev tweeted: “Welcome to the brave new world where Europeans are very soon going to pay €2.000 for 1.000 cubic metres of natural gas!”įirst announced in 2015, the $11bn (£8.3bn) pipeline owned by Russia’s state-backed energy giant Gazprom has been built to carry gas from western Siberia to Lubmin in Germany’s north-east, doubling the existing capacity of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline and keeping 26m German homes warm at an affordable price. “True leadership means tough decisions in difficult times,” Kuleba tweeted. Scholz’s announcement was welcomed in Kyiv, where the foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said suspending the pipeline’s certification was “a morally, politically and practically correct step in the current circumstances”. “The situation today is fundamentally different,” he said. The German leader described Putin’s recognition of the Russian-controlled territories as a “grave breach” of international law that broke with decades of agreements between Russia and the west. ![]()
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