President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky sharply condemned Canada’s decision to give the turbine repair there for the Russian gas pipeline” North Stream “. In his opinion, this is a violation of the regime of sanctions, and it will lead to new attempts by blackmail from Moscow.
today was a difficult day. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs had to call a representative of Canada in our state due to a completely unacceptable exclusion from the sanctions regime against Russia. This applies not only to the turbine for the North Stream gas pipeline, which Canada was not supposed to, but Nevertheless, I decided to convey. It is practically to Russia, ”Zelensky was indignant.
Such a decision in the Russian Federation will be regarded exclusively as weakness, the President of Ukraine believes.
According to the Ukrainian president, now Russia will try not to limit gas supply to Europe, but to completely stop them.
Canada decided to give the German manufacture to Germany. Before that, Russia sharply reduced supplies to the North Stream gas pipeline, explaining this, among other things, the lack of this turbine for the lawnily station. German Minister of Economy Robert Habek asked Canada to give to the turbine – in his opinion, this would deprive Moscow of the pretext for reducing gas supplies. The German Government press secretary Christian Hoffmann told reporters on Monday that Germany does not consider the turbine return to violation of the sanctions regime, since the sanctions do not relate to gas supply.