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Readers of the German magazine Der Spiegel defended the “Nord Stream-2” in the comments on the publication’s website. Many users condemned the words of the head German Foreign Ministry Heiko Maas and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on the desire to deter Russia from abuses.
“It is a pity that our elected politicians, who should primarily defend German interests, behave like an outpost of the United States, “” Blinken, Biden and Trump do not care about Europe’s energy supply. We do not need their advice”, ” I hope that after the launch of the Nord Stream — 2, blackmailers from Ukraine and Poland will be left with a nose”, “Why should we care about Ukraine’s problems with Russians? We will receive gas without losses for transit duties, ” the newspaper’s readers noted.
Nord Stream-2 involves the construction of two strands of a gas pipeline with a total capacity of 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year from the coast of Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea. The United States, Ukraine and some European countries actively oppose the construction.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that there will be gas transit through Ukraine after the completion of the construction of the Nord Stream – 2. He recalled the agreement with Ukraine, according to which gas will go to Europe through it for five years, but its volume is limited due to problems in relations. In Germany, they also said that they intend to work on extending the gas transit agreement through Ukraine.