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Ukraine summons Canadian envoy over turbine return to Germany

The Nord Stream 1 pipeline transports 55 billion cubic metres a year of gas from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea [File: Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters]

Ukraine has summoned Canada’s envoy to the country, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, in protest of the Canadian government’s decision to return a turbine to Germany for maintenance on the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline.

In his late-night address on Monday, Zelenskyy slammed Canada’s move as an “absolutely unacceptable” breach of sanctions against Russia and warned it would be viewed by Moscow as a “manifestation of weakness”.

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