MOSCOW, June 18 — RIA Novosti. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel in an interview RedaktionsNetwerk Deutschland stated that Russia did not use gas and the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline as weapons.
«I did not believe in change through trade, but in connection through trade with the second largest nuclear power plant in the world,» commented Merkel’s decision to build the gas pipeline.
She stressed that this step was difficult because the thesis was used Russia stop pumping fuel Ukraine right after startingNord Stream — 2As a result, the West has achieved the preservation of transit.
