Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reignites controversy by accusing the United States of ordering the 2022 attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
Russia 's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has claimed that the United States issued the order for the 2022 attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines . On 26 September 2022, a series of underwater explosions occurred on 3 of 4 pipes of the Nord Stream 1 NS1 and Nord Stream 2 NS2 natural gas pipelines . Both pipelines were built by the Russia n majority state-owned gas company, Gazprom , to transport natural gas from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea.
Back then, the Wall Street Journal reported that Ukraine's top military commander at the time, Valery Zaluzhny, oversaw the plan to blow up the pipelines. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky approved of the plan but tried to have it aborted after Washington warned him against it. Europe's imports of Russian gas have declined from about 450 million cubic meters per day mcm/d at the end of 2021 to about 150 mcm/d currently.
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