The spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said it would have been “impossible” for Ukraine to have carried out the 2022 explosions that sabotaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines without U.S. President Joe Biden and his administration knowing in advance.
Ukraine has denied any involvement in the major attack on the Russia-to-Europe gas infrastructure. German prosecutors, investigating the incident, arrested a 49-year-old Ukrainian national in August 2025. The Kremlin has accused Ukraine of masterminding the attack.
“Who, so to speak, facilitated this—it is obvious that without the knowledge of President Biden’s administration in the United States, such actions on the part of Ukraine and the Kyiv regime would have been impossible,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, originally in Russian, state-run news agency RIA reported.
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