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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vows punishment over Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany, unveiling new guidelines to impose sanctions over the project. SOUNDBITE
Images show the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, through which a third of Russian gas supplies passes to reach the EU. Closed since 11 July for a 10-day routine maintenance, Europeans fear that Moscow won't turn the tap back on Thursday 21 July. In previous weeks, Russia had already cut 60% of its gas deliveries via the pipeline. The 1,224-kilometre (760-mile) long Nord Stream 1 is a system of twin pipelines running under the Baltic Sea, stretching from Russia's Vyborg to Lubmin in northeastern Germany. From there, a network of pipelines transports the gas into the European grid. IMAGES of the pipeline Nord Stream 1
The United States is confident Germany will not open the Nord Stream 2 pipeline with Russia if Moscow invades Ukraine, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland says at a State Department briefing. "If Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward," Nuland, the State Department's number three official, tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Lubmin (Germany), 15 Oct (EFE/EPA), (Camera: Clemens Bilan).- The Prime Minister of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Manuela Schwesig, visited this Thursday the industrial port and the land entry facility of the joint project of the German-Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in Lubmin. FOOTAGE OF THE GERMAN-RUSSIAN NORD STREAM 2 PIPELINE IN LUBMIN (GERMANY).
The Ukrainian government was not involved in the sabotage last year of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, the country's defence minister says. "This is not our activity", Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov tells reporters in Stockholm ahead of a meeting with EU defence ministers, in response to a report in The New York Times that US officials had seen new intelligence indicating a "pro-Ukrainian group" was responsible for the sabotage. SOUNDBITE