Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko calls on European partners to defend their own energy security and not to play into the Kremlin’s hands in the issue of building the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.
“Nord Stream 2 is a ‘Trojan horse’ of the Kremlin against European energy and, ultimately, geopolitical security. The refusal to implement the project within the framework of the Third Energy Package of the EU and deliberate failure of Gazprom to implement the decisions of the Stockholm Arbitration on cases with Ukraine – these are clear and unambiguous signals about the true motives of the gas pipeline and its potentially catastrophic consequences for the European Union,” Poroshenko wrote on Facebook on August 10.
“I call on our European partners to get rid of the deceptive and destructive Kremlin spell as soon as possible and firmly defend their own energy security,” he added.
