Today, on December 17, the Nord Stream-2 pipeline's second string has started to be filled with gas.
Nord Stream-2 informed that the second string will be gradually filled with gas in a similar way to the procedure for the first string.
Nord Stream-2 notes that it's being done to reach the necessary volume and pressure levels.
Earlier Nord Stream 2 successfully completed pre-commissioning operations for checking pipeline integrity.
The next technical steps of Nord Stream 2 are promised to be announced additionally.
Earlier, German Ambassador to Ukraine Anka Feldhusen said that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will definitely not work for another six months, so Germany looks positively on additional gas transit through Ukraine.
In turn, the new Austrian Chancellor Karl Negammer spoke in favor of the launch of the Russian gas pipeline "Nord Stream-2". According to him, the Russian gas pipeline "is an important project that gives the European Union security of supply.
Recall that sanctions against Nord Stream-2 were removed from the draft U.S. defense budget. Information about this appeared immediately after the end of the video summit of Presidents Joseph Biden and Vladimir Putin.
Sanctions against the ships and the Russian company Transadria Ltd were introduced at the end of November.
According to media reports, Russia does not intend to increase natural gas supplies to the European Union, which is now in an energy crisis, until it receives all the necessary permits for the launch of the Nord Stream-2 pipeline.
