Baltic Pipe speeds up exit from Russian gas
“The era of Russian domination of gas is coming to an end, an era marked by blackmail, threats and coercion,” Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Tuesday at the symbolic inauguration of the Baltic Pipe compressor station in Goleniow near the Polish port city of Szczecin.
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