Washington’s latest sanctions aimed at European firms constructing the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline are a “bad sign” for the continent and proof of the US’ policy of “state blackmail and terror,” according to a prominent Russian MP.
Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the Russian Parliament’s Committee on International Affairs, said in a weekend statement that “the United States, in its maniacal persistence, is trying to disrupt the creation of the [world’s] largest gas pipeline… and unfair competition between Washington and Moscow is hitting European companies like an extraterritorial missile.”
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