(ANSA-AFP) - MOSCOW, OCT 12 - President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said leaks on the Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Europe were the result of "international terrorism" that would benefit the United States, Poland and Ukraine. "There is no doubt that this is an act of international terrorism... the geopolitical significance of the remaining gas systems is increasing -- they pass through Poland... Ukraine... and the United States, of course, which can now supply energy resources via high prices," Putin said during a televised address to representatives of Russia's energy sector.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called an oil price cap discussed by European leaders "a threat to the well-being of billions of people", after saying Russia will not sell to countries implementing it. "With their cavalier decisions, some Western politicians are destroying the global market economy and are in fact posing a threat to the well-being of billions of people," Putin told an energy forum in Moscow.

(ANSA-AFP).