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Forbes: New Russian pipeline in Baltic Sea could ‘collapse’ Ukraine

By Forbes.

Published Aug. 6, 2016 at 9:08 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) meets with Russia's gas giant Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller at the Kremlin in Moscow, on February 29, 2016.

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A Russian proposed natural gas line through the Baltic Sea could kill Ukraine, says Amos Hochstein, Special Envoy for International Energy Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Hochstein warned about the economic impact on Ukraine in an interview with a Slovakia news publisher called EurActiv. He retweeted his interview on his Twitter account July 29.