BBCNEWS HARDtalk February 14, 2022 04:42:00
But here, the security dimension is more important than the economic dimension, here in this particular question, because it's ourfirm belief, based on our experience, that the reason, first and foremost, putin wants to build nord stream 2 is to be able to divert transit from ukraine to nord stream 2 to, as you say, bypass ukraine, because he wants to be able to further invade ukraine without any negative consequences on energy trade with europe and with germany in particular. so that's a real concern, and that's what we're trying to explain to our partners all over the world. well, of course,...