Ukraine has offered to help Europe bridge the gap in its energy supply by using its own pipelines to help natural gas reach Europe. The Nord Stream 1 pipeline was already operating at just 20 percent of its capacity, and the drastic reduction in Russian gas flows hit Germany hard. Several senior German politicians this week rejected a suggestion that gas shortages could be helped by reviving the canceled Nord Stream 2 pipeline, as proposed by the Kremlin. FDP caucus leader Gyde Jensen said: “Nordstream 2 has always been a solo effort that alienated our Eastern European neighbours.” “When there is war in Europe, we must stand together,” he tweeted. Kevin Kuehnert, general secretary of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s SPD, said: “I strongly recommend that we avoid the humiliation of asking Putin for something that we are not going to get.” “Dependence on him must end once and for all,” he told German news site t-online.
