The president asserted that sanctioning Russia was no longer sufficient for "Anglo-Saxons." He further added that the Anglo Saxons went ahead and sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines.
President Vladimir Putin reiterated on Friday that the US and UK were behind the explosions on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea that carried Russian natural gas to Germany and that they "obviously" benefited from it.
Putin claimed that Washington was attempting to "completely get its hands on the European market" by pressuring the EU to forbid the import of Russian goods.
“But the sanctions are no longer enough for the Anglo-Saxons,” he said, using Russian shorthand for the US-UK transatlantic alliance. “They have turned to sabotage – it’s unbelievable, but it’s a fact – by organizing the explosions on the Nord Stream international gas pipelines,” the president stated.
“They de facto began the destruction of the common European energy infrastructure. It’s obvious to ...