Caroline’s Reviews > Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War > Status Update

[western Europe’s strategy after Russia cut gas supply to Ukraine (and thus thru Ukraine to the West) as political leverage in 2006] “To diversify transit routes to take Ukraine out of the equation…served Russia’s goals as well..would then allow Russia to cut off supplies from Ukraine without cutting off Europe…the means to do this was the Nord Stream project…”