“Unilateral anti-Russian sanctions are illegitimate.
They hit not so much on ours as on the interests of the United States themselves, but in the case of Server Stream 2 - the direct allies of the United States of America: the European Union, Germany, both collectively and individually, "Zakharova said during a briefing.
On the eve, the American publication Foreign Policy reported that the administration of US President Joe Biden was "quietly" seeking to exclude amendments from the annual defense budget, which imply sanctions against Nord Stream 2, in order to remove German organizations from sanctions.
On November 23, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced that Washington would introduce new sanctions against those involved in the implementation of Nord Stream 2.
The German Green Party called these measures unacceptable.