Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that the sanctions exception it made to return Russia’s repaired gas turbine was a “very difficult” decision to make, Reuters reported on Wednesday. Canada said over the weekend that it had provided a “time-limited and revocable permit” to return the turbine to Gazprom for a Nord Stream 1 compressor station. The gas turbine was being repaired by Germany’s Siemens. The gas turbine is a critical component for getting Gazprom’s Nord Stream 1 pipeline back up and running. Without it, Gazprom said it could not guarantee the safe operation of the pipeline. What’s more, Gazprom said that it “does not have a single document that allows Siemens to bring back a gas turbine engine from Canada… for the Portovaya (station),” the Russian energy company said on Wednesday. Ukraine expressed its displeasure at Canada’s decision to return the turbine in violation of the sanctions, urging […]