The official representative of the US State Department, Preis, commented on the statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin that he organized explosions on the northern streams who was interested in supplying Russian gas to Europe only through Ukraine. “
According to Price, the subversions of gas pipelines are sabotage, the United States will support Europe investigations, Russian media write.
“We said that it was a sabotage. We will continue close coordination with our European allies and partners, provide support to European investigations and continue to make efforts to strengthen energy independence,” said the official representative of the State Department.
On the eve of Vladimir Putin, speaking of explosions, called them a terrorist attack: “This is an act of international terrorism, I would say, state terrorism. Why? Because individuals, private and individuals independently, without the support of government agencies, not to commit such terrorist attacks Completed “.
Explosions on the North Stream and North Stream-2 gas pipelines occurred on September 26. The operator company announced unprecedented destruction and refused to predict the timing of the return of gas pipelines into operation. The incident occurred in the economic zones of Sweden and Denmark. Law enforcement agencies of these two countries and Germany are investigating. At the end of October, Gazprom was allowed to study the place of explosions. According to the Russian president, the company revealed that the explosions pulled out a pipe 40 m long, the gap is 250 m.