USA impose sanctions against the Swiss company Nord Stream, which is the operator of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, and its leader. This was stated by US President Joe Biden. However, if White House reports are to be believed, the restrictions will not affect former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who chairs the operator’s shareholders’ committee. Although Washington threatens to take further steps in the event of an escalation of the situation around Ukraine. The Ukrainian issue was also discussed in New York, at a meeting of the UN General Assembly.
At a meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York, which was entirely devoted to the situation around Ukraine, the Russian invasion became the leitmotif. The very one that the American intelligence services and media have long promised. Their predictions did not come true, but the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine again began to scare everyone.
“The outbreak of a large-scale war in Ukraine will be the end of the world order as we know it,” said Dmitry Kuleba, Ukrainian Foreign Minister. “If Russia does not receive a harsh, quick and decisive response now, this will mean total bankruptcy of the international security system and international institutions responsible for maintaining it. This is a grim scenario that will take us back to the darkest times of the 20th century.”
About the dark times in the Donbass itself Dmitry Kuleba was reminded by Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative of our country to the UN. About the shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the unfulfilled Minsk agreements. Now Russia will monitor the ceasefire in the region. They will not liberalize with violators.
“For eight years, Kiev has continued and continues to bomb its own citizens and evade direct dialogue with the Donbass, and the entire world community has been led by the nose, assuring adherence to the Minsk agreements,” Nebenzia noted. – And our Western colleagues did not even call on Ukraine to carry out the “Minsk”. It became obvious that there are no prospects for the implementation of this document by Kiev.
According to Vasily Nebenzya, Russia recognized the Lugansk and Donetsk people’s republics, seeing how Kiev consistently sabotaged its obligations under the Normandy format. But the European guarantors – Germany and France – for some reason remembered him only now.
“This format still exists,” reminds Jean-Yves Le Drian, French Foreign Minister. We don’t give up on him. It leaves room for discussion that has existed and must remain open so that we can move forward with a peaceful resolution to the Ukrainian crisis.”
At the same time, Le Drian himself refuses to meet with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, which was scheduled in Paris on Friday. The statements of the head of German diplomacy are also riddled with contradictions.
“We want to prevent war together, so we made it clear in telephone conversations with our Russian colleague Mr. Lavrov that it is Moscow that should return to the negotiating table,” says Annalena Burbock, German Foreign Minister. But how, if here it is – a document on a new package of restrictive measures against Russia. There are already 555 people and over fifty legal entities on the EU sanctions lists. And all Russians without exception may be there.
Poland intends to stop tourist flows from our country. “Unfortunately, the sanctions must be very strong,” said Andrzej Duda, President of Poland. “As a neighbor of Russia – after all, Poland borders on the Kaliningrad region – I will do this with regret, speaking out in favor of sanctions that, for example, will block travel opportunities citizens of Russia. And if President Putin continues to behave in the same way, then these steps will be inevitable.”
Through the efforts of European politicians, another flow has already been suspended – blue fuel. More precisely, the certification of the second string of the gas pipeline along the bottom of the Baltic. Europe again confuses politics with economics.
“As we have seen, in recent months, if not years, Russia has used energy resources as an instrument of pressure not only on Ukraine, but also on the European Union,” said Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission. “And we are now really determined to end our dependence on Russian gas.
If with one hand Brussels introduces new sanctions against Russia, then with the other it increases purchases of blue fuel in the United States. In the past two months alone, the port of Rotterdam, one of the largest harbors in the EU, has received nearly 60 LNG tankers. However, the cost of its transportation can seriously weaken the economies of European countries – analysts warn.
According to them, the new sanctions of the West will also hurt the States themselves if Russia takes retaliatory measures. Oil and all its derivatives will rise in price, despite the fact that inflation in the United States has been setting new records lately.
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