Nord Stream-2 to put Europe into full dependence on Kremlin-operated gas supplier - Yatsenyuk

Nord Stream-2 is an anti-Ukrainian, anti-Polish, anti-Slovak, and anti-European project, former prime minister of Ukraine now heading the People's Front party leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk told an international conference in Warsaw titled Revolution, War, and their Consequences.

"How can one support the project which Russia employs to capture the European Union energy market?" Yatsenyuk said, according to the party's press service.

He emphasized the need to take steps toward energy security: "The question also arises about the unity in the European Union: what comes first? Is it business, economy, or values? And it's not only values, but also awareness of energy challenges for EU member states."

Read alsoPoroshenko: Ukraine urges EU states to reject Nord Stream 2"How can one support a project behind which stands Russia's Gazprom, the company that fails to comply with the Stockholm arbitration award in favor of Ukraine and simply switches off gas pressure in the Ukrainian pipe to make Ukraine fail with gas transit to the European Union?" said Yatsenyuk, adding that Ukraine managed to overcome that crisis.

"How can one support a project that deprives Ukrainian citizens of $3 billion a year? How can we support a project that puts Europe in full dependence on a single political company that is not managed by [CEO] Miller but the Kremlin and Putin personally, that is not about selling gas but using it as an energy weapon?" he said.

He added that together with the Polish partners, Ukraine calls on the project to be stopped. "We rely on our European partners, the EU, and the European Commission to make the right decision, the right one for our countries, for our peoples, and for our future," said the former prime minister.

Read alsoUkraine, Moldova criticize Nord Stream 2 – mediaThe international conference Revolution, War and their Consequences held in Warsaw focuses on developments in Ukraine since 2014, the illegal annexation of Crimea, Russian aggression in Donbas, and their consequences for Ukraine and Europe, the issue of information wars and hybrid aggression.

The 45th French President Francois Hollande, Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Svyatoslav Shevchuk, and public figures from Ukraine and Europe take part in the conference.