The Kremlin puts a Biden remark made weeks before Russia attacked Ukraine in a false context.
The next day, Putin went inched further toward specifically blaming the United States and Western allies. During a speech announcing that Russia would annex areas of Ukraine it has partially occupied based on rigged referendums, Putin said:
Though Russia isn’t pumping natural gas to Europe, high prices thanks to its war have helped the majority state-owned Gazprom, which posted record revenues and profits in August. “That pause is brief, however, given that Russia has been blowing up or shelling energy targets across Ukraine, too. … Given the targeting of energy infrastructure in Ukraine, just one incidence of which plunged five million Ukrainians into darkness, it seems likely that Putin bombed Nord Stream 1 and 2 simply to terrorize Europe."