Nord Stream bombings put Ukraine’s ties with Germany under pressure
A bilingual Dutch story with sentence-by-sentence English translation. Level: INTERMEDIATE (CEFR). Tap any word in the DuoBook reader for an instant translation.
De explosie van de Nord Stream-pijpleidingen in 2022 heeft voor aanzienlijke politieke spanningen tussen Duitsland en Oekraïne gezorgd.
The 2022 explosion of the Nord Stream pipelines has created significant political tension between Germany and Ukraine.
Duitsland geloofde jarenlang dat handel drijven met Rusland vrede en stabiliteit naar Europa zou brengen.
For many years, Germany believed that trading with Russia would bring peace and stability to Europe.
De vernietiging van deze kostbare infrastructuur toonde echter aan dat dit beleid van economische samenwerking was mislukt.
However, the destruction of this expensive infrastructure showed that this policy of economic cooperation had failed.
Op die septemberdag zorgden onderwaterexplosies voor een enorme lekkage van aardgas in de Oostzee.
On that September day, underwater blasts caused a massive leak of natural gas into the Baltic Sea.
Het incident wordt nu gezien als een bewuste daad van sabotage die de diplomatieke betrekkingen diepgaand beïnvloedt.
The incident is now viewed as a deliberate act of sabotage that deeply affects diplomatic relations.
Nu werken onderzoekers hard om te achterhalen wie er achter deze complexe en gevaarlijke operatie zat.
Now, investigators are working hard to uncover who was behind this complex and dangerous operation.
Vocabulary (Dutch)
- pipeline
- pijpleiding
- tension
- spanning
- infrastructure
- infrastructuur
- sabotage
- sabotage
- diplomatic relations
- diplomatieke betrekkingen
- investigators
- onderzoekers
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