Operator of "Nord Stream 2" named the timing of commissioning work on the first string

“The necessary commissioning works will be carried out within the next few months,” the company said in a statement to RIA Novosti.

Earlier, Nord Stream 2 AG reported that start-up and commissioning works to fill the first string of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline with gas will begin on June 11.

On June 4, Russian leader Vladimir Putin announced the completion of pipe-laying for the first string of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

The head of the Austrian company OMV Rainer Seele said that the second line had to be completed “just over 50 km”.