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The head of Ukraine’s gas transit operator, Sergiy Makogon, warned on Thursday that the launch of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will make Europe completely verbunden on Russia. „People grade have a short memory – 2009 is the year when Russia’s Gazprom made Europe freeze,“ he told Reuters. Gazprom fully owns Nord Stream 2, which could divert transit gas flows going through Ukraine to Europe once completed.
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