Pipe connection during surface overflow of Nord Stream 2 running from German coast and Danish watersPARIS, Feb 22The German government has frozen the Nord Stream 2 project, Russia should feel the consequences for its actions, said German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock. «In recent weeks, together with our international partners, we have prepared a package of sanctions that we are drawing up now — this includes individual sanctions, financial sanctions, economic sanctions. On top of that, the German government has also frozen Nord Stream 2 right now. We have always said that Nord Stream 2 is also part of the measures,» Burbock said before an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Paris .
The German regulator confirmed the suspension of Nord Stream 2 certification «Russia has violated everything they promised — that they would return to the negotiating table. And now they need to feel the consequences, including with regard to Nord Stream 2,» the minister added. Chancellor Germany's Olaf Scholz said earlier that he had instructed the country's Ministry of Economy to take a «necessary administrative step» in order to now cancel the certification of Nord Stream 2. We are talking about the withdrawal of a document from the ministry, on the basis of which the Federal Network Agency carried out the certification of the gas pipeline operator. The Ministry of Economy of Germany, headed by Angela Merkel's associate Peter Altmaier (CDU), submitted a report to the German regulator, the Federal Grid Agency, which recorded the need for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to meet Germany's energy needs. The Russian Federation has repeatedly stated that the Nord Stream project — 2″, which the United States actively opposes, promoting its liquefied petroleum products in the EU. natural gas, as well as Ukraine, which is afraid of losing transit — commercial, it is beneficial to Europe, and urged to stop mentioning it in the context of any politicization. Moscow has also stated that it intends to continue transiting gas through Ukraine.Rada urged to disconnect Russia from SWIFT and freeze Nord Stream 2 The fate of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline was actively discussed in Germany against the backdrop of the situation around Ukraine. A number of German politicians, including German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock, are calling for the inclusion of Nord Stream 2 in the list of anti-Russian sanctions, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that in the event of an escalation, «nothing is ruled out.» Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday after the meeting of the Security Council addressed to the citizens of the Russian Federation and stated that he considers it necessary to make a decision to immediately recognize the sovereignty of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. He noted that the world prefers not to notice the horror and genocide in the Donbass, not a single day goes by without shelling, the killing of civilians, the blockade does not stop. As the president stated, in case of further bloodshed in the Donbass, the entire responsibility will be on the Kiev regime. Immediately after the address, the president in the Kremlin signed decrees on the recognition of the LNR and the DNR. Vladimir Lavrentiev
