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Work on the first core section of a controversial underwater energy pipeline linking Siberia’s gas fields to Western Europe has already been completed, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday in a surprise announcement.
Speaking at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, Putin said “I am pleased to say that today, just two-and-a-half-hours ago, we have completed laying the pipes for the first section of Nord Stream 2, and works are advancing on the second segment.”
“The gas pipeline, including the segment under the sea, has already been completed,” the president added. “There are two sections, from the German side and the Russian side – they have to be welded – and then it will be finished.”
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Update #1: Putin Says First Line Of Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Complete (RFE)
Update #2: Putin says Nord Stream 2 gas link to be finished as U.S. seeks good European ties (Reuters)
WNU Editor: 60 miles of pipeline remain, and this final phase will take about 2 months .... Second Nord Stream 2 line to be completed within 1.5-2 months — Putin (TASS). Russian President Putin is saying that this type of project can be done with other countries .... Russia ready to implement projects similar to Nord Stream 2 with other states (TASS).
2 comments:
Biden said he didn’t want to further damage US-German relations so he folded on NS2. Classic Democrat foreign policy. Kick the can down the road. By not insisting that Germany face consequences now, Germany will feel free to engage its interests with China and Russia over the next decade, despite harming NATO’s interests let alone US interests.
This will boil over, but not on Biden’s watch.
I would have thought such a pipe would be much larger in diameter.
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