McConnell's speech was broadcast by C-SPAN.

“The good news is that he (German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. -

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) confirmed what President (USA Joe) Biden said yesterday: if the invasion occurs, then Nord Stream 2 will not move forward,” McConnell said .

As Biden previously stated, in the event of a hypothetical “Russian invasion of Ukraine”, the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will “be put to an end.”

Deputy Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies and Forecasts of RUDN University, member of the Civic Chamber of Russia Nikita Danyuk, commented in an interview with RT on Biden's words about the possibility of stopping Nord Stream 2.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that the country would act jointly with the United States in the event of "Russia's invasion of Ukraine."