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Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Tuesday that Germany would halt certification of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline that would link his country with Russia, one of the strongest moves yet by the West to punish the Kremlin for recognising two separatist regions in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The German leader\u2019s announcement came hours after President Vladimir Putin of Russia ordered armed forces to the separatist regions, the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People\u2019s Republics.<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s allies in Europe and the United States hadbeen pressing Scholz for weeks to state publicly that the $11 billion pipeline, which was completed late last year and runs from Russia\u2019s coast to northern Germany under the Baltic Sea, would be at risk of being blocked in the event of a Russian move against Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation today is fundamentally different,\u201d Scholz told reporters in Berlin. \u201cThat is why we must re-evaluate this situation, in view of the latest developments. By the way, that includes Nord Stream 2.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s government welcomed Germany\u2019s decision. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called it \u201ca morally, politically and practically correct step in the current circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since November, the amount of natural gas arriving in Germany from Russia has plunged, driving prices through the roof and draining reserves, leaving all of Europe in an energy crunch. The pipeline, which is owned by a subsidiary of Gazprom, Russia\u2019s state-controlled energy behemoth, has been filled with natural gas but had not gone online, pending approval from a German regulator.<\/p>\n

The pipeline had been certified by Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s government before she left office, the last step before the project was passed on to the regulator, who had said that the project might be approved as early as midyear.<\/p>\n

But Tuesday\u2019s announcement rescinds the previous government\u2019s approval, and the project will now be re-examined under Scholz\u2019s economy ministry, which is led by a member of the environmentalist Greens party. Since taking office, both Scholz and his minister have stressed the importance of diversifying Germany\u2019s energy sources away from the heavy dependence on Russian natural gas.<\/p>\n

Last year, Russian gas accounted for nearly 27% of the energy consumed in Germany, according to government figures, an increase that was expected to continue after the country shutters its last three nuclear power plants, scheduled in December, and works to phase out coal-burning power plants by 2030.<\/p>\n

A full two-thirds of the gas Germany burned last year came from Russia.<\/p>\n

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