Belarus president calls for end to Ukraine war to ‘avoid nuclear confrontation’
The Russian decision to resume pumping gas through the Nord Stream pipeline on Thursday sparked widespread satisfaction in Europe, which was reflected in the decline in the prices of this substance.
As soon as Nord Stream, the operator of supply lines, announced that it had resumed pumping to Germany, as usual and according to the required volumes, at 42.2 million cubic meters, gas prices fell in trading in Europe, and futures contracts for August (August) fell by 6.5 percent.
The pumping of gas through the “North Stream-1” route (a gas pipeline between Russia and Germany that was laid across the bottom of the Baltic Sea) was stopped from July 11 to 21 due to periodic maintenance work, according to the Russian side, while European countries saw that Moscow was using gas supplies as a political weapon in the context of its current confrontation with the West.
In another context, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko called on the parties to the conflict in Ukraine to stop the war to avoid slipping into a nuclear confrontation. In a remarkable position for the Kremlin’s main ally in the former Soviet space, the Belarusian president said in an interview published by Agence France-Presse yesterday, that “the West, Ukraine and Russia must accept a cessation of the continuing conflict,” warning that the world is close to the brink of a nuclear confrontation if the deterioration of the status quo continues.
Nevertheless, Lukashenko defended the positions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying that he “has no ambitions to build a Slavic empire.” He called on Ukraine to accept the new fait accompli and recognize “the loss of territories that have come under the control of the Russian Federation.”
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