The spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin said it would have been "impossible" for Ukraine to have carried out the 2022 explosions that sabotaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines without then-U.S. President Joe Biden and his administration knowing in advance. Newsweek reached out to Biden's office for comment.

Authorities say that due to the major injury crash, Nord Avenue will be shut down in both directions from East Avenue to West Lindo Avenue.

Former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder on Friday defended the construction of the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, as one of two top-level officials to be questioned in an official inquiry.