BERLIN, July 23 ― German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday defended a deal with the United States that allows the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to proceed as a pragmatic compromise, but Ukraine said the agreement was too weak to ensure Russia behaves the way Kyiv and the West want.
Despite long-standing US objections to the project, President Joe Biden's administration concluded that it was too advanced to stop. Germany, which strongly backs the pipeline, and the United States announced on Wednesday what amounted to a truce over the pipeline. “After all, we are not without any tools to do something,” said Merkel, adding she hoped sanctions against Moscow would not be needed.Kyiv had wanted the project stopped altogether and had cited Russia's 2014 annexation of the Ukrainian region of Crimea and its backing for pro-Russian separatists in a conflict in eastern Ukraine as grounds for not trusting Moscow.“There is a fundamental problem ...
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