US, other energy suppliers organizers of the Nord Stream terrorist attacks, Putin claims

Speaking at the plenary session of Russia’s Energy Week in Moscow, President Vladimir Putin weighed in on recent blasts on the Nord Stream pipelines, saying the organizers of the attacks are ultimately those who profit from them.

"It is clear who benefits [from the sabotage... the remaining gas systems will now play a more important geopolitical role. These are Polish routes, the Yamal-Europe [link], and there are two pipelines in Ukraine - Russia once paid to build all those. And of course the US will now be able to sell energy at higher prices," Putin said at the Russian Energy Week forum.

In the wake of the sabotage, the US will have an opportunity to push more liquified natural gas (LNG), a fuel inferior to Russian pipeline gas due to its higher price, on Europeans, Putin noted.

Also, the situation is fraught with risks of instability, Putin warned. "We saw this recently, when U.S. tankers carrying LNG to Europe turned around midway and changed destinations because LNG suppliers had been offered a better price elsewhere. And the interests of European customers were ignored," the Russian leader concluded.
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NATO "Sea Fox" mine disposal unmanned underwater vehicle was found on Nord Stream 1 in 2015:
[https://youtu.be/EyKcW_OM5wo]