International Probes Into Nord Stream Attacks Not Transparent, Russian Deputy Envoy to UN Says
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UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) - In 2022, the Nord Stream gas pipeline, the main purpose of which is to transport gas under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany, suffered explosions. Moscow has insisted that it was a terrorist act and blamed the United States and Britain for it.
The investigations conducted by Sweden, Denmark and Germany into the 2022 attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines were devoid of transparency, Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyanskiy said on Thursday.
"There was absolutely no transparency for Russia. And they rejected absolutely any attempts to establish bilateral cooperation with Russia, though Russia is undoubtedly the affected state in this situation," Polaynskiy told journalists outside the UN Security Council.
Polyanskiy noted that any attempt by Russia to urge the UN Security Council to act was declined by the United States and its allies.
The Russian gas export pipelines running under the Baltic Sea to Germany have been idle since the explosions. Denmark and Sweden, in whose waters the blasts occurred, said in February they would drop the investigation into the attacks despite conceding that sabotage was the cause of the pipelines' breakdown.
Russia decried the bombings as an act of terrorism. Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Russian President Vladimir Putin, said the probe into the attacks had likely led Denmark to its close allies.
