The Russian ship has moved to a position to resume construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline

The Russian ship has moved to a position to resume construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline

Russia's Akademik Chersky pipeline ship moved to a position to resume construction of a gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, which the United States is firmly rejecting. According to its monitoring data, the ship has arrived in an area where the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is unfinished. The pipeline is to transport Russian gas to Germany. Another Russian pipeline ship, the Fortuna, sailed from the German port of Wismar and is probably headed to another area where another section of the pipeline is to be built. Russia's state-owned gas company Gazprom is preparing to complete the pipeline with its own resources after a Swiss offshore company decided to leave the project a year ago due to a threat of US sanctions. Gazprom had to send the ship Akademik Chersky on a long voyage from the port of Nakhodka on the Russian Pacific coast to the Baltic Sea. The ship has been moving between different Baltic ports since May, as plans to build the Nord Stream 2 pipeline have become uncertain due to the threat of sanctions. The United States says the Nord Stream 2 pipeline would undermine Europe's energy security at a time when relations between Russia and the West have reached its worst level since the end of the Cold War for crises such as Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula in 2014. The Kremlin, on the other hand, accuses Washington of stopping the pipeline project in an effort to force European customers to buy American liquefied natural gas instead of cheaper Russian gas.