The United States and its allies vehemently deny allegations made by Russian President Vladimir Putin that it was 'Anglo-Saxons' in the West who sabotaged gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
Speaking on Friday in Moscow at a ceremony to annex four regions of Ukraine into Russia, Mr Putin claimed that "Anglo-Saxons" in the West have turned from imposing sanctions on Russia to "terror attacks," sabotaging the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in what he described as an attempt to "destroy the European energy infrastructure."In Washington, US President Joe Biden dismissed Mr Putin's pipeline claims as outlandish.
At the UN, Sergey Kupriyanov, spokesman for the Russian state-owned company Gazprom, which is the majority stakeholder in Nord Stream, told the council that data regarding the sudden drop in pressure in the pipeline and the gas leakage "make it possible to say with certainty that the leaks in the pipelines was caused by physical damage."
Russia's UN ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, made a host of allegations implicating the US in sabotage, including that it would benefit the US gas industry. US deputy ambassador Richard Mills accused Mr Nebenzia of spreading "conspiracy theories and disinformation" and using "inflammatory rhetoric." Vladimir Putin made the claims about the pipelines at a ceremony declaring the annexation of Russian-controlled territories in Ukraine.
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