Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has claimed that the United States issued the order for the 2022 attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines. On 26 September 2022, a series of underwater explosions occurred on 3 of 4 pipes of the Nord Stream 1 (NS1) and Nord Stream 2 (NS2) natural gas pipelines. Both pipelines were built by the Russian majority state-owned gas company, Gazprom, to transport natural gas from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea. Lavrov made the comments when speaking to reporters during a visit to Azerbaijan on Monday,…