"Power of Siberia 2" is under construction

A statement on this occasion was made by Serhiy Vakulenko, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

According to his data, it is highly likely that Russian engineers carried out work on preliminary engineering design.

What is important to understand is that we are talking about preparing "hundreds of volumes" of technical documentation.

Journalists note that the total budget of the project is not currently disclosed.

Experts have suggested that the upper limit fluctuates around $30 billion.

At the same time, Chinese officials have been relatively quiet about the pipeline, leading some observers to doubt that the project is actually moving forward.

Russian monopoly Gazprom still hopes that Beijing will eventually change its position on this issue.

This will still be the cheapest gas for them [the Chinese] — that's why Gazprom is ready to invest serious money, and I don't think they're making a big mistake.