The diplomat said Poland's former foreign minister has already identified the US as the party behind the apparent sabotage. Radoslaw Sikorski is well connected to Washington elites through his employment at various think tanks.
The two Nord Stream pipelines were seriously damaged this week in what is suspected to have been a deliberate attack.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday called the incident "sabotage action" and warned that "any deliberate disruption of active European energy infrastructure is unacceptable and will lead to the strongest possible response."
On Wednesday, Zakharova asked who exactly the warning would apply to. She wrote on social media:
"I don't get it. MEP Sikorski thanked the US for what had happened, so whom is Ursula 'threatening' there?"Zakharova was referring to the reaction to the incident by Sikorski, now an EU lawmaker, who posted a photo of the site where the explosions occurred on Twitter with the words:"Thank you, USA." He described the incident as a "special maintenance operation."
Sikorski added that "there's no shortage of pipeline capacity for taking gas from Russia to Western Europe, including Germany," referring to the Yamal-Europe land pipeline that goes through Belarus and Poland. After the damage to the Nord Stream strings, Russian President Vladimir Putin "will have to talk to countries controlling" the alternative route to resume supplies, he predicted.
Zakharova earlier asked if Sikorski's tweets amounted to an "official statement that this was a terrorist attack." Meanwhile, Dmitry Polyanskiy, the Russian deputy ambassador to the UN, thanked Sikorski for "making it crystal clear who stands behind this terrorist-style targeting of civilian infrastructure!"
There has been no shortage of threats from some Western nations against Russian undersea pipelines, particularly the Nord Stream 2 both before and after late February, when Moscow sent troops into Ukraine. It had been ready to pump gas since September last year, but was not put into operation due to Germany's refusal to certify it. Polish President Andrzej Duda demanded last month that the pipeline be "totally scrapped."
US President Joe Biden warned in early February, before Russia began its military operation in Ukraine, that if Moscow acts against Kiev, "there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it." A journalist asked him to clarify what exactly he meant, to which Biden responded: "I promise you, we will be able to do that."
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken commented on the incident on Tuesday, stating that attacking Russian pipelines was "in no one's interest."
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They're awful cocky, aren't they?
America creates, imposes, and enforces the sanctions against Russia, which are forcing up energy-prices in Europe, and are thereby driving Europe’s corporations to move to America, where taxes, safety-and-environmental regulations, and the rights of labor, are far lower, and so profits will be far higher for the investors.
on the 25th, Oil Price dot com headlined “Europe Faces An Exodus Of Energy-Intensive Industries”, and mentioned especially that “the U.S. Steel giant ArcelorMittal said earlier this month that it would slash by half production at a steel mill in Germany and a unit at another plant, also in Germany. The company said it had based the decision on high gas prices. … ArcelorMittal earlier this year announced it had plans to expand a Texas operation.”
On September 19th, the New York Times headlined “‘Crippling’ Energy Bills Force Europe’s Factories to Go Dark: Manufacturers are furloughing workers and shutting down lines because they can’t pay the gas and electric charges.”
It could not have happened without the leaderships both in America and in Europe, who are leading the way for Europe’s economies to decline, and for America’s to boom from this — attracting more and more investors, and their investments, into America, from the U.S. regime’s vassal-nations (such as Germany and France), especially in the EU and NATO (these new banana-republics). The beneficiaries of all this are not only America’s weapons-manufacturing firms, such as Lockheed Martin, and extraction firms such as ExxonMobil,
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Pres. Biden: "If Russia invades...then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it."
STUPID DEMENTED CHILD SNIFFING PEDO, COMPLETELY GOT IT WRONG.......AGAIN!!
A Fateful Moment of History Is Upon Us
Putin and the Kremlin are committed to one important thing that differentiates Russia from the US and that is that Russia follows international law and the US does not. This is why there has been no “Russian invasion of Ukraine” as proclaimed by Western propagandists. Kiev, the functioning of the Ukraine government, and the cities and infrastructure of western Ukraine have not been attacked.
The Kremlin has limited its military operations to the areas in Ukraine where the majority Russian population was being shelled, occupied, and murdered by Ukrainian forces and which faced last February an invasion of a large Western-trained Ukrainian army and neo-Nazi militias intended to overthrow the two independent Donbass republics recognized by the Russian government. The republics requested Russia’s intervention, which made the “limited military operation” legal under international law.
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When the Germans see their economy destroyed and their Grandmother dead from famine and cold, maybe then will they rise up against the tyranny they are being forced to endure. - This 'clever' move by the U.S. is bound to backfire.
I'd love to see a movement of Western Europe make a effort to join BRICS.
According to European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen “the leaks” into the Baltic sea were due to “sabotage”: “Any deliberate disruption of active European energy infrastructure is unacceptable and will lead to the strongest possible response,” she warned,
SHE CANT DO A DARN THING ACCEPT GIVE PEDO PETE A BLOWJOB, SHE HAS NO AUTHORITY WHAT SO EVER OVER THE NAZI AMERICAN GOV,
and urged and investigation to get full clarity on the “events and why”.Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen described them as “deliberate acts”, adding: “We are not talking about an accident.” Von Der Leyen did not elaborate as to who might have been behind these “deliberate acts” of sabotage.
Bombshell
In a televised news February 7, 2022 interview the President of the United States acknowledged that the United States would act against Nord Stream if required.
This statement was made 3 weeks prior to the Russian invasion: President Joe Biden: “If Russia invades that means tanks and troops crossing the border of Ukraine again, then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2.
”Reporter: “But how will you do that, it’s in Germany’s control?
”Biden: “We will, I promise you, we will be able to do that.”
fkn evil bastards. killing the marine life, polluting the oceans, hope God above squashes the lot of you!!
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