The European Union has vowed ‘a robust and united response’ to any attack, which might target its energy infrastructure. The warning comes after the inexplicable explosions in the Baltic Sea, which on Monday crippled the North Stream 1 and 2, an act, which the EU describes as ‘deliberate’. Amid suspicions against Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry says that US president Joe Biden must say if the United States are behind the Nord Stream leaks, which connects Russia to Germany. According AFP, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova recalled Joe Biden’s statement in February, when the US president said that Nord Stream would be finished if Russia invaded Ukraine. In turn, president Putin’s spokesman Dmitri Peskov pointed to the ‘huge profits’ for US LNG suppliers who have ‘increased their supplies by several times’. The White House has described Russia’s demand that the United States say whether it was the blasts at the two natural gas pipelines as ‘ridiculous’. Russia has this month stopped its gas deliveries through Nord Stream 1 while Nord Stream 2, which was completed in 2021, has not become operational yet following the European sanctions imposed on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. Although not operational, the two pipelines were filled with gas.
