Lavrov blames US for TurkStream attack

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from RT:

Washington has given the green light to energy infrastructure sabotage in Europe, the Russian foreign minister has said

The US instructed Ukraine to target the TurkStream gas pipeline after sabotaging the Nord Stream sub-sea connectors in 2022, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has claimed.

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On Monday, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said Kiev had launched an unsuccessful attack with nine kamikaze drones on a gas compressor station near the village of Gaikodzor in Russia’s Krasnodar Region. The site is crucial for the operation of the TurkStream pipeline, which delivers Russian natural gas to Türkiye and several other European nations, via the Black Sea.

During a press conference on Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov suggested that the United States may have been involved in an attempt to sabotage a gas facility.

“I have a firm belief that the US needs no competitor in any fields, starting with energy,” Lavrov stated.

The minister went on to accuse the US of encouraging actions that undermine Europe’s energy stability, claiming that American officials “in headlong manner give a go-ahead to perpetrate terrorist attacks that ruin the energy well-being of the EU.”

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