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.

The US state of California’s power grid operator has declared an energy emergency, warning that it may institute rolling blackouts to curb a surge in demand, which has hit all-time record highs as residents crank up the AC to escape an unprecedented heat wave.

Ukraine has said it found no evidence of being attacked with such weapons, despite Washington’s assertion The US is peddling false information when claiming that Russia used North Korean missiles to attack Ukrainian targets, Moscow’s envoy to the UN Vassily Nebenzia told a Security Council meeting on Wednesday.