The design capacity of the first thread of the bypass pipeline is 15.75 billion cubic meters, which is slightly lower than the volume of Ukrainian transit to Turkey that stands at 16.6 bcm.
State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert says the United States is concerned that the construction of Nord Stream 2 and Turkish Stream gas pipelines will undermine Ukraine as a state transiting gas to Europe, according to the official's briefing published on the website of the U.S. State Department.