REUTERS
Ukraine counts on a principled position of Finland as regards the Nord Stream-2, involving the construction of the second string of a Nord Stream gas pipeline bypassing Ukraine, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said during a meeting with his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinistö on his Finland visit, the Ukrainian presidential administration’s press service reported Tuesday.
"The so-called commercial attractiveness of the given project carries a number of political risks," Poroshenko said.
As UNIAN reported earlier, Russia's Gazprom, Shell, OMV, and E.On. in September 2015 signed a shareholders' agreement early on a joint project company, which will be engaged in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukraine’s Prime Minister at the time, noted, if Russia and several Western companies built the Nord Stream-2, it would deprive Ukraine of a $2 billion profit, Slovakia - of $0.8 billion, Poland - of $0.4 billion, as well as deprive the EU of an actual energy independence.
Read alsoGazprom mulling selling stake in Estonian gas supplier Estonian Eesti GaasAccording to estimates of Naftogaz CEO Andriy Kobolev, the pipeline does not contribute to the diversification of gas supplies to the EU and neither does it provide the EU access to any new sources of natural gas. Kobolev also predicted that with the implementation of the project, all entry points of the Russian gas to the EU would be almost entirely concentrated in Germany. However, the existing gas pipelines between Northern Germany and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe do not have enough capacity to deliver the necessary volume of gas to the eastern European regions.
Read alsoFinland reacts to Russia's deployment of Iskander missiles near KaliningradNord Stream-2 involves the construction of two pipeline strings with a total capacity of 55 billion cubic meters of gas a year stretching from the Russian coast of the Baltic Sea to Germany.