Medvedev: The Nord Stream-2 Will Be Completed With a Delay

The delay in the construction of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline will last for several months, but the stream will be completed, the Russian prime minister ensures. The Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev sees no problems with the implementation of the Nord Stream-2 project in the lights of the US sanctions. He stated on Monday, December 23, TASS reports. “Gazprom has alternative options as to how to lay it all. Well, a little more time will be spent on this, but that’s okay,” the Prime Minister said. “It's all the same months, a month there, a month back. A few months more. What’s the catastrophe? There is no catastrophe, especially given the fact that we agreed with the Ukrainians on transit”, Medvedev added. Recall, on Friday, December 20, the US President Donald Trump signed a bill on the defense budget for the fiscal year 2020, which provides for sanctions on Russian gas pipelines Nord Stream-2 and Turkish Stream. Against the backdrop of document approval, the Swiss company Allseas, which is engaged in laying pipes for Nord Stream-2, notified of the suspension of work. Allseas later diverted all vessels from the construction area in the Baltic Sea. The construction of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline is 93.5% completed, and about 160 kilometers of pipes remain to be laid. Correspondent