At the EU-Ukraine summit in Brussels on Monday 9 July, European Council President Donald Tusk and Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko reaffirmed their opposition to the Russian gas pipeline project, Nord Stream 2.
"This is not a commercial project. This is not a profitable or economic project. This has no sense from the economic point of view. This is definitely a geopolitical project which tries to make Ukraine weaker and (...) to leave Ukraine without revenues from the existing gas...