US officials agree to destroying Nord Stream—Russian FM

(RT) ⸻ Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has claimed that US officials are admitting that they were behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, which was perpetrated to prevent rapprochement between Moscow and Berlin. He said that the US saw Russian-German cooperation as a threat and decided to destroy this alliance by attacking the pipelines, which were built to deliver Russian gas to Europe through Germany. The comments come just days after iconic American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh released a bombshell report, blaming Washington for sabotaging the pipelines last year. US National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson denied the report, calling it "utterly false and complete fiction."