Russia does not expect the results of the Nord Stream 1 investigation to ever be made public
Russia does not expect the results of the investigation into the Nord Stream explosion to be made public, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday, Reuters reported.
Russia has repeatedly said it was excluded from several investigations by Denmark, Germany and Sweden. “ I do not expect these investigations to be transparent, nor for the results to be made publicly available ,” Lavrov said during a news conference, Reuters reported. In January, Russia said Sweden's refusal to share information about the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines was "staggering", arguing that the refusal to provide information meant Swedish authorities were "hiding something".
According to Sweden's conclusions, traces of explosives were found near the site of the explosions of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, defining the incident as " gross sabotage ", but without revealing the culprit.
Earlier this month Russia said the US had a motive to carry out the Nord Stream explosions to open the door for its LNG exports to natural gas starved Europe.
“ Such an explosion, so powerful and at such depth, could only be carried out by experts backed by the full potential of a state that has relevant technologies at its disposal ,” President Putin said earlier this month. The comments came following a series of media reports quoting an unnamed US official as claiming that Ukraine, or pro-Ukrainian groups, may have been responsible for the blasts. Putin called this theory “ complete nonsense ”.
Russia said earlier this month that it plans to decommission the blast-damaged Nord Stream gas pipelines, with no facilities to put them online or repair them anytime soon due to deteriorating relations with the West. What is the use of repairing structures that are not expected to be reused in the short term?
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