International minister doubles down on long-held Russian concept after studies that German prosecutors issued arrest warrant for Ukrainian man.
Russia’s International Minister Sergey Lavrov has stated that it’s “clear” that the US ordered the 2022 attacks 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 beneath the Baltic Sea, whereas The Wall Avenue Journal reported the explosions had been carried out by a Ukrainian crew and accredited by Kyiv’s then army 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, after all, 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 stated there have been “makes an attempt responsible every part on a gaggle of drunken officers”, one thing he branded “not critical”.
The US had no speedy response to Lavrov’s newest assertion however has beforehand dismissed Russian strategies of its involvement.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has beforehand instructed that the US was responsible for the attack, which Moscow has repeatedly described as a “sabotage”.
The Wall Avenue Journal reported that Ukraine’s prime army 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 accredited of the plan however tried to cease it after the US’s CIA instructed him they had been conscious of the plans and warned towards 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 stress drop on the pipelines beneath the Baltic Sea was registered on September 26, 2022 and seismologists detected explosions, triggering a wave of hypothesis about who sabotaged the multibillion-dollar venture that carried Russian fuel to Germany.
Nobody has claimed duty for the blasts, which occurred off the Danish island of Bornholm and ruptured three out of 4 strains of the system.