“If harshly, briefly, no,” he said on the Russia 1 television channel, answering the question whether the United States would be able to halt the implementation of the Nord Stream 2 project.
Earlier, the Handelsblatt newspaper, referring to US Ambassador Richard Grenell, wrote about the possibility of imposing sanctions on the project. Thus, the American diplomat did not rule out that, despite the election campaign in the United States, the process of adopting new sanctions against Nord Stream 2 could be quick.
In the Kremlin, speaking about the risks of imposing sanctions, they emphasized that the plans to complete the pipeline did not change.
Politico later wrote that American leader Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel did not agree on Nord Stream 2 issues during a telephone conversation,