Russian president insists gas pipeline can be repaired and avoids blaming anyone for sabotage that rendered it useless
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has expressed Russia’s willingness to send gas to Europe through Nord Stream 2, a project that has been shelved for political reasons and which Moscow is now trying to claim after the recent acts of sabotage in the Baltic Sea.
As a result of this sabotage, “an act of international terrorism” in Putin’s words, Nord Stream 1 has been rendered useless, despite the fact that it no longer served as a source of supply due to the service interruption at the beginning of September.
Putin has claimed that the Nord Stream 2 can be repaired and thus become operational, something that never happened because Germany put the project on hold before it became operational. It has the capacity to transport 55,000 million cubic meters of gas per year.
The president of Russia, appearing at an energy forum this Wednesday, has said the sabotage of the Nord Stream sets a “dangerous precedent” and aims to further cloud relations with the European Union, official news agencies said.
In his speech, Putin avoided blaming anyone for the sabotage, but cited Ukraine, Poland and the United States as the main beneficiaries, the latter two countries because they would become more relevant as countries of origin or transit of energy.
However, he has assured that Russia will be able to bring its gas to the world market thanks to its still open connections with China and Turkey, just as he has ruled out any impact on oil exports, which he expects to remain so until at least 2025.
Source: La Verdad
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