The United States believes it is too early to draw conclusions about possible sabotage that may have caused the leaks.
The Pentagon denied any allegations that the United States was involved in the accident at the Russian gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2. On Wednesday, September 28, Reuters wrote, citing an unnamed senior official of the US military.
“We are absolutely not involved,” he said, answering a question about rumors that the United States caused gas leaks in the Nord Stream.
However, he noted that it was too early to draw conclusions about what happened.
“Many of our partners, I think, believe that this is sabotage. I’m not at the stage where I can tell you unambiguously,” the official insisted.
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In turn, the White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who commented on the possible involvement of the US in the accidents, said that Biden has not yet promised to “destroy the Nord Stream, he promised not to allow it to be carried out.”
“The president said that Nord Stream 2 will not be implemented, and we will do it together with Germany. And he was right, because Germany was frozen in February. That is what the president is talking about,” said Jean-Pierre.
Before that, the Russian Foreign Ministry recalled that in February of this year, Biden promised to “finish Nord Stream – 2 if Russia attacks Ukraine.”
For his part, the adviser to the Minister of Energy of Ukraine, Lana Zerkal, in a commentary on Radio Liberty, suggested that the Russian Federation deliberately damaged its own gas pipelines.
“This is a terrorist act that the Russians did deliberately. There is a point of view, which I share, that it would cost the Russians less to repair these gas pipelines than to pay fines for not supplying gas to European consumers. avoid these fines, the Russians will safely destroy these pipes,” said Zerkal.
At the same time, according to Bloomberg, the Nord Stream accident threatens to cause not only an economic disaster, but also an ecological disaster.
“Germany estimates that around 300,000 tons of methane, one of the world’s most potent greenhouse gases, was released into the atmosphere as a result of the pipeline explosions. This amount of gas will have the same effect on the climate in the next 20 year as the annual release of 5 million cars,” – the publication notes experts.
Earlier in Germany, Denmark and Sweden they said that the cause of the leak in two strings of the Nord Stream gas pipeline was targeted explosions, and not natural causes.
The US State Department believes that what happened to the gas pipelines may have been the result of an attack or sabotage.
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