U.S officials have been lobbying Germany not to proceed with the development of Nord Stream, natural gas pipeline that would circumvent Ukraine and thereby allow Russia to sell gas to western Europe without paying transit fees to its former vassal state... ..…

Russia denies undertaking any such development of land-based, intermediate-range Cruise missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads and hitting European cities at short notice. . Germany, the Netherlands and Belgian are concerned about the deployment of U.S. missiles in Europe - as happened..…