Washington expects a halt to the Russian Nord Stream 2 project in the event of an open Russian invasion of Ukraine, said US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.

“I think that if President Putin invades Ukraine, we expect the pipeline to be shut down,” she said at a hearing at the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee..

How exactly this should be done, Nuland did not elaborate.. To date, the Russian pipeline has been completed and is preparing to undergo certification. At the same time, there are no sanctions against him in the draft defense budget for the 2022 financial year..

At the same time, Bloomberg, citing White House sanctions plans, reports that Washington plans to turn to Berlin to stop the pipeline..