{"id":1673753,"date":"2022-10-05T10:58:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T14:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1673753"},"modified":"2022-10-05T10:58:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T14:58:45","slug":"top-biden-admin-official-provides-update-on-sabotage-attack-against-nord-stream-pipelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-biden-admin-official-provides-update-on-sabotage-attack-against-nord-stream-pipelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Biden Admin Official Provides Update on \u2018Sabotage\u2019 Attack Against Nord Stream Pipelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-biden-admin-official-provides-update-on-sabotage-attack-against-nord-stream-pipelines%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1673753&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A top Biden administration official said that the United States was not involved in the explosions targeting the Russian-owned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nord-stream\">Nord Stream<\/a> pipelines last month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-john-kirby\">John Kirby<\/a>, the National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, told Fox News that the United States \u201chad nothing to do\u201d with the explosions when asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s just Russian propaganda and disinformation,\u201d Kirby <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1577425829533044740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1577425829533044740%7Ctwgr%5E8ba9d4734293126ab118fa3f5656ffc23ee36ca7%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fu-s-official-gives-update-on-act-of-sabotage-against-russian-nord-stream-pipelines\">said<\/a> in the Tuesday evening interview \u201cNow, we know it was an act of sabotage, but there\u2019s an investigation going on right now. I don\u2019t think we\u2019re going to get into credentialing that in terms of who was responsible. We\u2019re going to let the investigators take a look at that. But, clearly, this was an act of sabotage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There has been speculation that the United States may have facilitated the attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines due to several public statements made by White House officials. Last week,\u00a0Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that the pipeline damage is a \u201ctremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, I can\u2019t speak to specific accountability for this act of sabotage,\u201d Kirby stated Tuesday. \u201cI can just assure you the United States had nothing to do with it, of course. That\u2019s just Russian propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials have not determined who was behind the attack last week, Kirby added. No group or nation-state has claimed responsibility, while authorities in Nordic countries said that the damage was done by explosions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/10\/02\/Russia_Ukraine_War_Undersea_Risks_Explainer_22272580706349-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> In this picture provided by Swedish Coast Guard, a small release from Nord Stream 2 is seen, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (Swedish Coast Guard via AP) <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust look at what Russia has done in the past since the last seven months of this war and when it began, and that is to weaponize energy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin, meanwhile, has denied accusations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top Biden administration official said that the United States was not involved in the explosions targeting the Russian-owned Nord Stream pipelines last month. John Kirby, the National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, told Fox News that the United States \u201chad nothing to do\u201d with the explosions when asked. \u201cThat\u2019s just Russian propaganda and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}