“According to the current assessment, the southeast route is more acceptable, based on a number of environmental and safety parameters,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

Earlier, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Elena Burmistrova said that the operator of the project "Nord Stream - 2" in the near future will consult with the Danish Energy Agency about the applications for construction.

On June 7, Alexey Miller, head of the Russian company Gazprom, stated that the actual duration of the construction of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline section in Denmark is a maximum of five weeks.

Leading analyst at the National Energy Security Fund, Igor Yushkov, in an interview with NSN, commented on the Nord Stream 2 report, according to which the completion of the construction of the Nord Stream-2 could be postponed to the second half of 2020 when implementing the project on the third route option, which demanded to consider Denmark.