The Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned the chargé d'affaires ad interim of Canada to Ukraine in connection with Ottawa's decision to hand over a turbine to Russia's Nord Stream gas pipeline to Siemens. This is reported in a statement from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.

"On July 11, the Charge d'Affaires of Canada in Ukraine was invited to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to express the disappointment of the Ukrainian side in connection with the Canadian government's decision to issue permission for the return to Germany of Siemens Energy Canada's overhauled Nord Stream 1 turbines." , the statement said.

The Foreign Ministry added that it called on the Canadian side to reconsider this decision, "undermining the Euro-Atlantic unity in the application of the international sanctions regime against Russia, as well as creating grounds for Russia to continue to use energy as a hybrid weapon against Europe."