The US and Germany have reached a deal to resolve their longstanding dispute over the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, including a promise from Berlin to impose sanctions on Russia if Moscow threatens its neighbours’ energy security.
The announcement comes after a bilateral meeting last week at the White House between US president Joe Biden and Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel, and will ease a diplomatic row between the two countries over Europe’s energy supply.
However, Ukrainian officials and several US lawmakers said the promises from Germany did not provide sufficient protection to American allies from potential Russian actions to disrupt energy security.