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A former spy and close friend of Vladimir Putin, with the support of US investors, the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline restarted in Europe is engineering, which is once an unimaginable step that shows the width of Donald Trump’s Moscow.
According to a number of people aware of the discussion, an agreement was an attempt at Matthias Warnig, a former Stacy Officer in East Germany, who opened the main organization of Nord Stream 2 for the Kremlin-controlled gas giant Gazprom until 2021.
Warnig’s plan is to reach the Trump team through US traders, people say that the back-channel efforts to end Ukraine’s war when economic relations between the United States and Russia deepens.
According to Washington officials, some of the Trump administration’s figures are aware of the initiative to bring US investors and they see it as a push to rebuild relationships with Moscow.
Although there are a number of interests, a Post-Consciousness agreement with a US-led consortium Gazprom has outlined a post-concept agreement, according to a person who has refused to reveal the identity of potential investors.
Veteran officials of EU have been aware of the Nord Stream 2 discussion in recent weeks. Leaders of several European countries are concerned and discussed the issue, several officials have expressed their knowledge of the discussion.
In September 2022, two pipelines of Nord Stream 2 were blown up in an attack that destroyed both pipelines of his elder sister project Nord Stream 1. Another Nord Stream 2 pipeline, whose annual capacity is 27.5bn cubic meters of natural gas but has never been used.
The latest plan will theoretically suppress the United States on Europe’s fuel supply, the people have said that after the attack on EU countries, after the attack, after the end of the dependence on Russian gas.
However, the obstacles are sufficient. During the war, Russia will need to agree to resume sales against Russia, Russia, and to allow any potential buyers of Germany to flow to any potential buyers in Europe, the United States will need the United States to lift sanctions against Russia, Russia.
“America will say, ‘Well, Russia will now be reliable because trustworthy Americans are in the middle of it’, ‘,” former US senior officials who were aware of some delemeting attempts. US investors will collect “money for something”, he added.
The Trump administration has come up with bilateral negotiations with Russia to seal a peace treaty excluding Europe and Ukraine through the Trump administration’s race, fearing that the European capital who fears the US dentant with the Moscow feared that the continent could threaten the continent. If Trump could reach a peace agreement, he promised deep economic cooperation with Russia.
Russian president Putin said that the United States had spoken to the economic benefits that could harvest the Kremlin in a Ukraine settlement, claiming that several companies had already kept in touch with the possible agreement.
Nord Stream 2 AG, a Swiss-based guardian agency in the pipeline, received exceptional accommodation in January in January within at least four months.
According to a document from the Radacped Court, Shareholder of Nord Stream 2 – Gazprom – argued that the new Trump administration, as well as the German elections in February 2021, “probably under the circumstances of Nord Stream 2” may have significant consequences for the warrant for delay.
Warnig told the Financial Times that “he was not involved in any discussion with any American politician or business representatives” he added that he was following the rules of honor [as a] US approved person. “
Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he had no information on any discussion on the pipeline. Gazprum refused to comment. A lawyer representing Nord Stream 2 in Swiss Insolvenry Processing and Nord Steam 2 did not respond to FT requests to make custodian comments appointed by the Credit Dwellers’ court.
Warnig (1) states that he became a close friend of Putin after the establishment of the NDER DRESDER Bank’s office in St. Petersburg in the 1970s, where he led the foreign relations committee of the then unknown Putin city.
The two became so close that Putin asked Warneg to set up his daughters at Rodermark’s banker’s house while he was seriously injured in his daughter’s car accident.
Putin, who spoke in German, taught Warnig’s kids to ski, and invited him to his father’s funeral, an interview with Die Jate’s former Stacy Officer in 2021.
However, Warneg called Putin’s attack a “indescribable mistake” and resigned from the board of the Kremlin-powered power organization after the war began in the Ukraine in 2022.
He told Dye Jate that he made a personal appeal to end Putin’s attacks within a few months and said that the Russian president was so isolated that “the only person who can still tell him something is me”.
Nord Stream 2, a Russian -owned company, who operates the pipeline in 2021, left Dye Zate, who guaranteed Gazprum’s chief executive Alexei Miller, who hoping to save its expenses.
Joe Biden’s US administration has approved Warnig and Nord Stream 2 AG in 2022. Biden officials showed very little interest in the proposal to buy Nord Stream 2 last year from American businessman Stephen Lynch with a record of working in Russia.
Other potential investors have come forward since the first interest in Lynch. Gazprom’s direct knowledge of the discussion says that its advanced discussion was with a US -led consortium from launch.
Lynch refused to comment while contacting the feet. He has applied for a license from the Foreign Resources Control Office for the US Treasury Office of Nord Stream proposal. Lynch was previously allowed to bid for the former Swiss support company of the NDDer Bank, which was approved in 2022.
Trump was outspoken for criticizing the pipeline in the first term as president. It has become a symbol for those who rely too much on Russian gas and help to help Moscow’s military machines financing in financing.
But some teams of Trump now see the pipeline, which moves from Russia to Viborg, the Gulf of Finland to Griffswald, a strategic resource that can be earned in Ukraine peace talks, administration officials.
The complex ownership structure of Nord Stream 2 presents serious potential barriers for any investment.
Nord Stream 2 Gazprom owned 100 percent. However, the five European Energy Agency – Shell, Uniper, OMV, NG and Winters – have jointly provided about half of its $ 11 billion construction cost through loans. The five European companies have written these debs.
The German government pulled the plug in the licensing system of Nord Stream 2 in 2022 and never issued the documents required to manage it.
Ownership of the pipeline theoretically our investors can give a liver to control Russian gas flow in Europe, which is a key market for us to export our liquid natural gas sent across the Atlantic in the tanker.
But with the experience of investing in Russia, former US senior officials and Western businessmen said that Trump and Putin alone would not be enough to continue Nord Stream 2 and continued.
“I can’t imagine this to a big US corporation board, ‘Hey, let’s come back to the Russian market’ and the Russians also know it – they have seen these rock in American policy,” said former US officials.
“Europe is still banned and signing up for rehabilitation of Germany Nord Stream will create huge cracks. Something like this is off. “
Additional Report: Frankfurte Olaf Storebeck, New York Jamie Smith and James Fontenella-Khan, Laura Pitell and Courtney Weaver in Berlin, Alex Rogers in Washington, Tabcom Kinder in San Francisco and Malcom Moore in London in London.
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