Ukraine’s embattled leader Volodymyr Zelensky has slammed the US for cutting Kiev out of decisions about Nord Stream 2, raged at delays to joining NATO, and said Washington has not yet asked his advice on how to deal with Russia.
Speaking to the Virginia-based Axios news site over the weekend, the Ukrainian president said he had been blindsided by Washington’s decision to halt the bulk of sanctions aimed against the Russian-backed pipeline, which links the Siberian gas fields to consumers in Germany, the first segment of which was completed on Friday. The energy conduit, which will bypass Ukraine, “is a weapon, a real weapon in the hands of the Russian Federation,” he said, lamenting that “it is not very understandable…that the bullets to this weapon can possibly be provided by such a great country as the US.”
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