The statement from former US President Donald Trump about the "destruction" of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline should be considered an element of the election campaign, Kremlin's official spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
After the explosion of the gas pipeline, one thread survived, and Gazprom is ready to immediately start deliveries if Germany agrees to buy natural gas from Russia, Peskov said.
"There is a surviving thread of Nord Stream 2, and it is ready to be launched, as President Putin said. Therefore, it is very difficult to guess what Mr. Trump had in mind here," Peskov concluded.
The Kremlin's official spokesman believes that extravagant statements from US presidential candidates are based on the election fever of the political race that has entered the home stretch. According to Peskov, many elements of the political struggle "do not quite fit into the framework of our understanding."
"A lot of things are overly extravagant, overly emotional — we hear candidates insulting each other. We hear all these statements in the heat of this election race," Dmitry Peskov said.
In an interview with journalist Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump said that he blocked the construction of the gas pipeline. The construction of the gas pipeline was an important task for Moscow, since Nord Stream 2 was the largest gas pipeline in the world stretching from Russia to Germany and to all of Europe. He explained that he "destroyed” it because in 2019 he imposed sanctions on those involved in the construction.