Ukrainian President says Russian-German gas pipeline will āfeed the beastā in Moscow
Diverting part of European gas supply from Russia around Ukraine via the Nord Stream 2 offshore Baltic Sea pipeline would empower Moscow to āattack our common valuesā Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko writes in a guest article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Poroshenko says the planned pipeline would be āa tragic historic mistakeā and that Nord Stream 2 is āa 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 āappease an aggressorā and dissolve European unity, the Ukrainian president says.
See the Āé¶¹ĪŽĀė°ę factsheet Germanyās dependence on imported fossil fuels for more information.