White House National Security Council spokesman Adrian Watson said it was “ridiculous” for Russia to suggest that the United States could be responsible for the Nord Stream pipeline leak. did it again here.”

Watson’s words came in response to an invitation from Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova to US President Joe Biden to report whether the United States was involved in the gas leak.

Zakharova confirmed via social media that “the US president has an obligation to answer the question of whether the US carried out its threat”, referring to Biden’s statement made on February 7, that is, before the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, in which he mentioned that “if Russia invades (Ukraine), there will be no Nord Stream 2.”

The White House notes that “these statements reflect the intense pressure exerted by the US president on Germany to abandon the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, which allowed Biden to achieve the desired result.”