Russia-Germany Gas Pipeline Opposed by US Nears Completion Russia’s controversial Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline to Germany is nearing completion despite opposition in the United States and European Union.
Nord Stream 2 AG, the project’s Swiss-registered operating company, announced Monday that it had finished welding the final section of the $11 billion pipeline and expects it to begin operating “before the end of this year.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confirmed the news, telling reporters the pipeline, which runs along the Baltic Sea floor, “will be completed in a few days.”
Lavrov said although the U.S. had launched repeated “frontal attacks” against Nord Stream 2 in recent years, it had come to accept the pipeline as inevitable.
“The Biden administration has not changed its position, they are still against this project, but they understand that it cannot be stopped,” he said. “But if you understand that you are obsessed with some unrealizable task, then just common sense should tell you to leave it and do something realistic.”..............
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