The United States called the punishment for Russia during the escalation in Ukraine Russian news EN
The United States intends to prevent the commissioning of the American gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 (NS-2) as the crisis in Ukraine escalates. Such a punishment for Russia was called the official representative of the State Department, Ned Price, said RIA News.
“I want to make it very clear: if Russia invades Ukraine in one way or another, the implementation of Nord Stream 2 will not budge. We want to make this as clear as possible,” Price said.
According to the representative of the State Department, the pipeline has not yet been launched, that the US administration is putting pressure on the Russian Federation. “This is a pressure tool for us, for Germany, for the transatlantic community, because gas does not go through the pipeline,” Price said, choosing that this is not a pressure tool for Russian President Vladimir Putin, “and this should be clear.
Price has previously said that nausea does not feed the desire to impose large-scale sanctions against Russia due to the crisis in Ukraine, but it is ready to do so if the dialogue fails. According to him, we are talking about unprecedented economic sanctions, financial measures that seize export control, which “were deliberately rejected in 2014” due to the consequences that befall Russian pollution and the Russian Federation.