'This is not just strange, it smells of a monstrous crime,' Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
The sophistication of September's attack preceded European officials to say that it was probably state-sponsored.said that their sources believed the saboteurs were likely to be from Ukraine, Russia, or a combination of the two—but not the U.S. or the United Kingdom.
Implications of Ukrainian involvement could have a negative effect on the support for Kyiv from the German public, which has been hit by higher gas prices as Berlin cut its dependence on Russian energy since the start ofPutin had been accused of using energy as a weapon to weaken European resolve on backing Kyiv after Gazprom announced it wouldThomas O'Donnell, a Berlin-based geopolitical analyst and global fellow with the Wilson Center think tank, said that Putin had sought to restrict...
"If in fact, some non-state actors blew up the pipeline—whoever blew it up, whatever their intention was, they gave Russia a legally sound force majeure excuse not to send gas," O'Donnell told
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