BERLIN — The Biden administration will impose sanctions on a number of Russian ships and companies for their role in the construction of a controversial European pipeline project but will waive similar penalties on a German firm and its chief executive, according to congressional aides and the German government, which welcomed the move.
Associated Press: US spares German firm as it issues new pipeline sanctions
A couple observe and take pictures of the Russian pipe laying vessel Akademik Cherskiy that is moored in the port of Mukran near Sassnitz on the Baltic Sea island of Ruegen, north-Eastern Germany, on Sept. 7, 2020, as it waits to continue pipe laying works for the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline.
