She recalled the words Nuland said last Thursday, January 26, during a hearing in the US Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs on the topic “Counteraction to Russian aggression.” Then Nuland said: “Senator Cruz, I, like you, and I think the US administration is very pleased, knowing that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a pile of metal at the bottom of the sea.”
According to Zakharova, such words of a high-ranking US politician “are evidence of the Biden Administration’s approval of a terrorist attack to destroy civilian infrastructure.”
In addition, they are evidence of “Washington’s motive for undermining world energy security,” the diplomat summed up.