Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has sharply criticized the planned delivery of a serviced Russian turbine for the Baltic Sea pipeline “Nord Stream 1”. “If a terrorist state can enforce such an exemption from sanctions, what exemptions does it want tomorrow or the day following? This question is very dangerous,” Zelenskyy said in a video message yesterday. “And dangerous not only for Ukraine, but also for all countries of the democratic world.”
The Russian state-owned company Gazprom significantly reduced the delivery volume through “Nord Stream 1” in June and referred to the missing turbine, which was in Canada for repairs. A German government spokeswoman said in Berlin that the delivery of the turbine does not fall under the EU sanctions because they do not target gas transit for good reason.
Ukraine summons Canadian ambassador
Zelenskyy said the decision to “exception sanctions” was perceived in Moscow as a “manifestation of weakness”. “That’s their logic. And now there is no doubt that Russia will try not only to limit gas supplies to Europe as much as possible, but to completely stop them at the most acute moment,” said the President of Ukraine.
In view of this “unacceptable exception to the sanctions regime once morest Russia,” the Canadian ambassador was summoned, Zelenskyy said in the online service Telegram.
