Previously company building Nord Stream 2 suspended work to avoid US sanctions. FMTNews Putin GasPipeline
Russia president was speaking to a gathering of nation’s top businessmen yesterday.
Putin spoke about the vessel to a gathering of Russian top businessmen late on Wednesday, Kommersant reported. US President Donald Trump imposed sanctions last week on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline designed by Moscow to bypass Ukraine and increase gas supplies via the Baltic Sea to Germany, Russia’s biggest energy customer.
In 2016, Russian energy giant Gazprom bought a special pipe-laying vessel called Academic Cherskiy to be used as a last resort if European companies stopped working on Nord Stream 2.
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