He noted that the first pipe of the gas pipeline has already been filled with gas.
“By the end of this year - in the middle, at the end of December - the technological work on filling the second gas pipe of Nord Stream 2 will be completed,” the President said during a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club.
Putin also spoke about the environmental friendliness of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and the gas transmission system of Ukraine.
On September 10, Gazprom reported that the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has been fully completed.