Berlin has not shared details about the pipeline probe, the Russian Overseas Ministry has stated
Berlin has not supplied Moscow with any precise details about the assaults on the Nord Stream fuel pipelines in 2022, Russian Overseas Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has stated
The pipelines which ran beneath the Baltic Sea have been used to move Russian pure fuel to Germany and different components of Western Europe. They have been broken in September 2022 by a sequence of explosions close to the Danish island of Bornholm.
Russia has accused the US of orchestrating the assault, whereas some media within the West have blamed a “pro-Ukrainian group.”
Earlier this week, Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov accused Germany of refusing to formally share details about the investigation, suggesting that leaking it to the media as a substitute raises “suspicions that every one of that is staged” to deflect blame from the precise culprits.
German Overseas Ministry spokesman Sebastian Fischer responded on Monday that Berlin has engaged “in info change” with Moscow. Talking on Wednesday, Zakharova accused him of mendacity.
“What Mr. Fischer stated doesn’t correspond to actuality in any respect,” Zakharova informed reporters. “Merely put, it’s a lie. For nearly two years, the German facet has responded to all inquiries from Russian authorities concerning the destruction of the Nord Streams with solely empty formalities that contained no factual info.”
Fischer’s assertion “solely strengthens our suspicions of Berlin’s intention to ‘blow up’ the investigation, which is being carried out in complete secrecy, by not permitting it to determine the true instigators of the assault on the biggest trans-European vitality infrastructure facility,” Zakharova added.
In accordance with the Russian Overseas Ministry spokeswoman, Germany can be persecuting media retailers which are really making an attempt to find what occurred, which “reveals that Berlin has one thing to cover and is extraordinarily bored with conducting an actual investigation and having the reality made public.”
The unique Nord Stream was constructed after the 2009 fuel transit dispute between Kiev and Moscow, enabling Gazprom to produce Western Europe with out relying on Ukraine and Poland. The second pipeline was completed in late 2021, regardless of delays attributable to US sanctions.
Western media narratives about “Ukrainian saboteurs” being behind the blast, whether or not performing on orders from Kiev or alone, started showing solely after US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh blamed Washington. Citing sources throughout the intelligence neighborhood, Hersh argued that CIA divers working with the Norwegian Navy planted remotely-triggered bombs on each pipelines, utilizing a NATO train within the area as cowl.
In the meantime, Ukraine has maintained that Russia blew up its personal pipelines, which Moscow has dismissed as ridiculous.
