Such an incident is unlikely to have happened without the involvement of a state power, spokesman Dmitry Peskov says The damage inflicted on the Russian Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines points to a probable ‘terrorist act,’ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.

Relatively cold weather in recent weeks has driven up household natural gas consumption, the Federal Network Agency says Household natural gas consumption in Germany is currently too high to be sustainable, the country’s network regulator warned on Thursday, raising the spectre of potential energy rationing.

The US-led military bloc has decried “coercive use of energy” after the Russian-German pipeline was damaged Damage caused to gas pipelines linking Russia directly to Germany was most likely caused by “deliberate, reckless, and irresponsible acts of sabotage,” NATO said on Thursday.