The Baltic Sea resort of Lubmin, where Nord Stream 1 and 2 arrive, once embodied the German-Russian rapprochement. Now the place stands for their end. A visit.
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Peter Burghardt, Lubmin
“One has such a vague fear of the war,” says Axel Vogt, it is the evening before. The mayor of Lubmin sits in an otherwise empty hotel restaurant on the pier, overlooking the Baltic Sea and the beach. The sun casts long shadows, the sea gently ripples outside. A few hours later, Russia will attack Ukraine.