The joint Ukrainian-Polish position, formulated this week in an article by Foreign Ministers Dmytro Kuleba and Zbigniew Rau on opposing Putin-Merkel's Russian-German Nord Stream 2 project, published in Politico, was a reaction to the administration's slowdown in sanctions . Mykhailo Gonchar, President of the Centre for Global Studies "Strategy XXI", writes about this in an article for the Mirror Weekly.