Yatsenyuk: "Nord stream-2" will deprive Ukraine of $2 billion in revenues

In case of realization of the project "Northern stream-2" Ukraine will lose two billion dollars, said Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk after the meeting with the heads of governments of the Baltic countries in Riga, reports Government of Ukraine.

"We as the Ukrainian state is confident that this Project has nothing to do with economic issues, only political ones ", - said Yatsenyuk.

review of the Prime Minister of Ukraine, the General Project of Gazprom and Western organizations " would deprive the EU of real energy independence." He tried to convince the European Commission and heads of governments of the Baltic countries "seriously approach this issue," reports the portal.

The project "Northern stream-2" involves the construction of 2 pipelines with a total capacity of 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year from the coast of Russia through the Baltic sea to the German coast. The mutual agreement of the shareholders of the project organization New European Pipeline AG, which will build the pipeline was signed on 4 September.


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