“Let’s start with perhaps the biggest lie we’ve ever been told: Russian President Vladimir Putin blew up his own pipeline leading to Europe,” TASS quoted him as saying in the author’s program “An Evening with Tucker Carlson.”

The host called this behavior illogical and recalled that the US administration and the US State Department said they would find a way to stop Nord Stream 2.

Earlier, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that it was too early to draw any conclusions about the consequences of the explosions and the causes of sabotage at Nord Stream, the investigation is ongoing.