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18 May 2018

Ukrainian President says Russian-German gas pipeline will ā€œfeed the beastā€œ in Moscow

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Diverting part of European gas supply from Russia around Ukraine via the Nord Stream 2 offshore Baltic Sea pipeline would empower Moscow to ā€œattack our common valuesā€ Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko writes in a guest article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Poroshenko says the planned pipeline would be ā€œa tragic historic mistakeā€ and that Nord Stream 2 is ā€œa purely geopolitical project of the Kremlin that has nothing to do with national or private economic interestsā€. With Russia still engaged in armed conflict in eastern Ukraine and refusing to budge over the contested Crimea peninsula, a common project the scale of Nord Stream 2 would ā€œappease an aggressorā€ and dissolve European unity, the Ukrainian president says. 

See the Āé¶¹ĪŽĀė°ę factsheet Germany’s dependence on imported fossil fuels for more information.

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