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The Christian Democrat Union of Merkel believes that the EU and NATO should bring a powerful response to the Russian provocation in the Kerch Strait – to send their ships into the region. However, nothing prevents the construction of "North Stream 2"
Bundestag MP, Joachim Pfeiffer, said this, writes DW.
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Pfayffer is strongly opposed to the halt of the North Stream 2 gas pipeline project due to an escalation between Kiev and Moscow.
The politician believes that the behavior of the president and the Russian Vladimir Putin is totally unacceptable and the international community should give him a clear idea.
However, hasty sanctions or even the cessation of the construction of "North Stream 2" seem to me to be an absolutely false approach
he said.
For In his words, Germany "gets hurt" by stopping the gas pipeline. Pfeiffer is convinced that the Nord Stream will encourage the diversification of gas supply routes to Europe and increase the liquidity of the German and European markets.
By the way, the German ambassador to Ukraine, Ernst Reichel, said that Germany does not support the possible introduction of additional sanctions against the Russian Federation due to assaults in the Kerch Strait, as this can cause escalation of the conflict. Reichel stressed that talks on sanctions against Russia were continuing.
What happened in the Kerch Strait? On November 25, a Russian border ship broke into the tracks of Ukrainian tugs in the Kerch Strait. It is known that two small armored Ukrainian artillery boats and raids were conducted in accordance with international standards from the port of Odessa to the port of Mariupol
However, Russia said that Ukrainian warships would have illegally penetrated the temporarily closed waters of the Russian Sea and continued their movement towards the Kerch Strait.
A group of Ukrainian ships continued their journey to Mariupol. However, during the withdrawal from the Kerch Strait, Russian border ships opened fire on Ukrainian ships, injuring six Ukrainian soldiers. Russia also captured two Ukrainian ships and 24 Ukrainian sailors, who were later arrested in occupied Crimea and taken to SIZO Moscow.
Ukraine then introduced a military state in the 10 regions until December 26th. In addition, on November 30, Ukraine banned the entry into its territory of Russian citizens aged 16 to 60 years.
Russia is no longer the first month of the world to block foreign ships going to the Ukrainian ports of the Azov Sea. As a result, the Ukrainian economy suffers considerable losses.
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