Live Updates: Russia-Ukraine-War
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Moscow is ready to resume gas supplies to Europe via a link of Germany-bound Nord Stream 2 pipeline under the Baltic Sea which has never been in use.
The Nord Stream 2 pipeline has never brought natural gas to Europe because Germany prevented the flows from ever starting just before Russia invaded Ukraine.
Russia has cut off the parallel Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which has been at the center of an energy standoff with Europe. Russia has blamed technical problems for the stoppage, but European leaders call it an attempt to divide them over their support for Ukraine.
Speaking at a Moscow energy forum, Putin again claimed Wednesday that the U.S. was likely behind the explosions that ripped through both links of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline and one of the two links of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, causing a massive gas leak and taking them out of service.
The U.S. has previously rejected similar allegations by Putin.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS:
— Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant loses external power
— Belarus army would likely have little impact in Ukraine war
— Bodies exhumed from mass grave in Ukraine’s liberated Lyman
— EU countries turn to Africa in bid to replace Russian gas
— Leak detected in pipeline that brings crude oil to Germany
— Worried UN meets on Ukraine hours after Russian strikes
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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian authorities say a Russian attack on a market in the eastern Donetsk region has killed seven people and wounded eight.
The deputy head of the Ukraine president’s office says the attack...
