U.S. lawmakers have ruled out sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the agreed draft defense budget, the Russian newspaper VZGLYAD reported.
"(The bill) includes $ 4 billion in the European Containment Initiative (EDI) and additional investment for EDI, approximately $ 569.8 million than the request (White House)," according to a bill released by the House of Representatives of the United States.
On Friday, US senators failed to agree on changes to the defense budget due to disagreements over Nord Stream 2. Earlier, the United States promised to continue imposing sanctions on the pipeline under the European Energy Security Act (PEESA).
In Washington, the inclusion of a ship in the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the list of sanctions was called a "fatal signal". The US Treasury Department has also imposed sanctions on Cyprus-based Transadria and the Russian-flagged Marlin.
The Kremlin has called the new sanctions illegal and wrong, especially amid attempts to establish a dialogue between Russia and the United States. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that Western countries, led by the United States, are imposing sanctions "on everything in a row, with or without a reason."
Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov, in turn, stressed that US attempts to conduct a "dialogue through sanctions" with Russia are unacceptable and violate international law. It then became known that the Biden administration was opposed to a congressional initiative for new sanctions against Russia's Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline.
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