The official representative of the American agency, Morgan Ortagus, wrote about this on her Twitter page.

“As the USA intensifies its efforts to target sanctions against the project Nord Stream 2, the likelihood of a delay or even a halt in pipeline construction increases,” the company’s message says.

Linas Linkevicius said that before arriving in Vilnius, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya “was detained in Belarus and spent about seven hours in detention.”