The United States formally blacklisted more than a dozen Russian ships involved in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, days after exempting the pipeline’s Russian operator and CEO.
RFE/RL: US blacklists 13 Russian ships in Baltic pipeline project
A man cycles past gas pipes bound for the Russian pipe laying vessel Akademik Cherskiy (behind) that is moored in the port of Mukran near Sassnitz on the Baltic Sea island of Ruegen, north eastern Germany, on September 7, 2020, as it waits to continue pipe laying works for the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline.
