The Malta-registered pipelay vessel Solitaire working on the Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Republican lawmakers put pressure on U.S. President Joe Biden to apply recently authorized sanctions against companies building the pipeline from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea, while the new administration tries to ease strains with Germany at the expense of Ukraine
As the Biden administration dawdles in imposing new sanctions on Nord Stream 2, the Russian-Germany pipeline heads towards its completion this year.
Republicans in the U. S. Congress, in what is turning out to be a last-minute bid to stop the project, are ramping up pressure on U. S. President Joe Biden — but it seems the U.S. leader has sided with Germany, which wants the pipeline operational, over Ukraine, which doesn’t.