Bloomberg's latest Nord Stream news says that far-right leader elected in the Dutch election Geert Wilders said he discussed the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline in 2022 and Ukrainian refugees staying in the Netherlands for a long time in his first face-to-face meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky on September 7.
Mr Wilders revealed that the parties "discussed the corruption in Ukraine, the opportunity for peace and the conditions for achieving peace, the Nord Stream issue and the Ukrainian men who stay in the Netherlands instead of helping Ukraine".
President Zelensky added that he met the Dutch leader-elect at the Ambrosetti Forum in Cernobbio, Italy.
Last month, Polish authorities said a Ukrainian citizen suspected by German authorities of involvement in the Nord Stream sabotage case had fled Poland after Germany issued a Europe-wide arrest warrant.
Mr Wilders' far-right Freedom Party won a surprise election victory in November and holds the largest number of ministries in the new Dutch cabinet, which was sworn in in July. However, Mr Wilders was forced to abandon his bid to become prime minister in order to form a coalition with three other parties.
Mr Wilders said the conversation with President Zelensky was “a good conversation”. The far-right leader had previously argued that the Netherlands should cut military aid to Ukraine but backed off from that idea to convince his coalition partners.
In another development, TASS's latest Nord Stream news said that Russia has not received any reliable information from Germany about the sabotage of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines .
Russian Ambassador to Berlin Sergey Nechayev said that Russia has not received any reliable information in response to its requests in the Nord Stream case. "We have not received any convincing documents, let alone explanations," he said.
"A terrorist blow has been struck against the international energy infrastructure, the vital infrastructure" of Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2, the Russian diplomat added.
Ambassador Nechayev stressed that the Nord Stream gas pipeline involves not only Russia but also many other countries. "And Germany is suffering huge losses. This is not only in construction but also in lost profits, because all branches of Nord Stream 2 are ready for operation," the Ambassador stressed.
The Russian diplomat pointed out that immediately after the sabotage in the Baltic Sea, a branch of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline remained intact. The Russian side proposed to operate this branch of the pipeline to deliver Russian gas to Germany and Europe. "But unfortunately, the political will of the Europeans and Germany chose a different path," the ambassador said.
Earlier, TASS quoted German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit as saying that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wanted to know the culprit of the Nord Stream explosion and the topic of sabotage of the gas pipeline remained on Berlin's agenda in contacts with Kiev.
