With this title, the portal hirado.hu published the Reuters information, according to Ukraine is working behind the scenes to convince Western countries that the Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline should also be stopped, and the goal may be to see it through Ukraine again gas Europe.

As they write, the Germans had previously announced that they would not put pipe 2 of the line into operation. Since natural gas no longer arrives via the Yamal pipeline passing through Poland, fossil raw materials would practically arrive in Western Europe from Russia only via the Southern Stream pipeline passing through Hungary.

The aim of the Ukrainians can certainly be that Europe can receive natural gas through the Friendship Pipeline that passes through the territory of their country. In this way, Moscow will once again be forced to pay transit fees to its neighbor - this previously meant 3 billion dollars (nearly HUF 1,500 billion) in revenue for Ukraine every year. Furthermore, the country would once again have the blackmailing potential towards the West, which it has exploited several times before . According to Reuters sources, at least this is what the prominent people of the gas company Naftogaz, which operates the pipeline, are trying to convince the Biden administration and American lawmakers.

All of this is interesting if only because the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, has repeatedly stated extremely sharply that the West should stop importing all kinds of fossil energy carriers. According to Zelensky, everyone must understand that it is no longer about business and money, but about survival. Kiev also accused European countries of "earning their money on other people's blood."

It should be remembered that US President Joe Biden announced on February 22 that, in addition to financial sanctions, the United States will impose additional sanctions on Russia. One of them is to suspend the process of putting the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline into operation together with Germany.

Source: hirado.hu

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