The arrival of Russian gas in the United States outraged the Ukrainian community

Despite the efforts of the United States to bring Russia to justice for the war in Ukraine and the illegal annexation of the Crimea, a ship with Russian natural liquefaction gas on board arrived in Boston Harbor on Sunday. Writes Boston Globe, Russia managed to circumvent the sanctions obstacles and deliver gas to the United States.

Last week, America was generally poorly able to restrain Russian President Vladimir Putin. It turned out that the head of the Russian spies was allowed to visit the United States, which clearly violates the sanction ban, and also the French vessel Gazelys with Russian gas on board arrived in the American port.

Company Distrigas, which imported this liquefied gas, said that the transaction is not prohibited, since the restrictions apply to the company of the exporter, which produces gas in fields in Siberia, and not to the liquefied gas itself. But the very fact of gas delivery clearly contradicts the meaning of the measures taken to economically punish Russia for military aggression.

At the end of the month, another gas tanker is expected from Russia for the United States, but the company and the state will have to revise the rules and policies under which Massachusetts can get imported gas.

The United States is the world's largest producer of natural gas, but supplies to New England are hampered due to weather conditions and limited pipeline operation. Officials such as Attorney General Maura Healey and the effect of long-standing federal law that prohibits shipping of American gas to Boston resist a change in this situation.

The politicians set a double standard, rejecting the use of domestic natural gas in places where there are problems, but at the same time allowing the import of foreign gas under the condition of danger to the environment and human rights.
The precedent for Russian gas raised many questions for the Ukrainian community, which lives in Boston - about 90 thousands of Ukrainians.

“I'm outraged. How did it happen that our government remained silent?” said the former journalist Globe Peter Voloschuk.

According to him, the Boston hospitals helped to treat the victims of the Ukrainian war, the Boston non-profit organization sent about $ 100 thousand for medical supplies for Ukraine.

“We are here taking care of the victims of the Russian aggression, and Distrigas gives money to the Russians and the Russian government, which uses it for even more victims,” says Voloshchuk.

Members of the local Ukrainian-American community wrote a letter to the leadership Distrigas and plan to protest at the terminal company Everett.

“I don’t want to use Russian gas. I don’t know why we can’t use our own gas?” said Vsevolod Petriv, chairman of the Boston branch of the Ukrainian Congressional Committee.

According to him, the US attention to Ukraine was riveted during the tragic protests in Kiev, as a result of which the pro-Putin president, Viktor Yanukovych, fled to Russia and in 2014, the war began in eastern Ukraine. If gas supplies to Putin-related firms occurred at a time when all the world's attention was focused on Ukraine, then “the reaction would probably have been stronger.”

However, according to him, the Ukrainians will not stop despite the weakening of public attention and those holes that seem to open up in US sanctions. There is still a heavy war in Ukraine, according to the United Nations, the death toll has recently exceeded 10 thousand people.

“We're in this until the end, we're going to win and we're going to hang in there. If the rest of the world wants to support us, great. If not, then this will not stop us,” Petriv said.

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