Overseas minister doubles down on long-held Russian concept after studies that German prosecutors issued arrest warrant for Ukrainian man.
Russia’s Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov has mentioned that it’s “clear” that the USA ordered the 2022 assaults on the Nord Stream fuel pipelines.
His remark adopted studies that German prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian man over the blasts on the pipelines, which carried Russian fuel to Germany below the Baltic Sea, whereas The Wall Avenue Journal reported the explosions have been carried out by a Ukrainian crew and authorized by Kyiv’s then navy commander-in-chief.
Chatting with reporters throughout a go to to Azerbaijan on Monday, Lavrov doubled down on Moscow’s long-stated claims that the West was concerned.
“It’s clear that to hold out such a terrorist assault, there was a command from the very prime, as they are saying. The very prime for the West is, in fact, Washington,” Lavrov instructed Izvestia newspaper in a video interview printed on its Telegram channel.
Lavrov, nonetheless, didn’t current clear proof of his declare.
He mentioned there have been “makes an attempt in charge all the things on a bunch of drunken officers”, one thing he branded “not critical”.
The US had no instant response to Lavrov’s newest assertion however has beforehand dismissed Russian solutions of its involvement.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has beforehand advised that the US was accountable for the assault, which Moscow has repeatedly described as a “sabotage”.
The Wall Avenue Journal reported that Ukraine’s prime navy commander on the time, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, oversaw the plan to explode the pipelines utilized by Russia to ship fuel to Europe.
The paper claimed that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy authorized of the plan however tried to cease it after the US’s CIA instructed him they have been conscious of the plans and warned in opposition to it.
On Wednesday, Poland confirmed that it had obtained a German arrest warrant for a Ukrainian man who’s reportedly a suspect over the assault.
A pointy strain drop on the pipelines below the Baltic Sea was registered on September 26, 2022 and seismologists detected explosions, triggering a wave of hypothesis about who sabotaged the multibillion-dollar challenge that carried Russian fuel to Germany.
Nobody has claimed accountability for the blasts, which occurred off the Danish island of Bornholm and ruptured three out of 4 strains of the system.
