Completing Nord Stream 2 will cost Kiev billions of dollars by ending Russia’s reliance on Ukraine for transporting gas, and therefore must be stopped, according to Aleksey Reznikov, the country’s deputy prime minister.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, the senior politician claimed Russia “has tried to bully Ukraine” by threatening to cut off the gas transported through the territory. Once the controversial pipeline is completed, Moscow would be able to act on it.
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