He spoke about this during a joint press conference with the President of Uganda.
“And, of course, Nord Stream 2, which is completely ready to compensate for what is needed, to satisfy what is needed ... in this type of fuel, is simply closed for political reasons,” RIA Novosti reports him.
He added that the European Commission retroactively adopted directives that slow down the completion of the project.
Earlier, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz commented on the situation with gas supplies from Russia.