Russia vs. Sweden: “They are hiding something in the Nord Stream pipeline explosion investigation”

Russia questioned today whether Sweden has “something to hide” over the explosions that damaged the Nord Stream pipeline last year, accusing Stockholm of not sharing information from its ongoing investigation into the explosions.

Authorities in Sweden and Denmark are investigating four holes in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines connecting Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea.

The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova he said Sweden’s refusal to talk to Russian prosecutors was “confounding” and said Moscow had a right to know the details of the investigation into the blasts, which took place last September.

Moscow has proposed to Stockholm a joint investigation into the explosions, which could permanently disable three of the four lines of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines. But both Sweden and Denmark rejected the idea of ​​Russian involvement.

In a press briefing today in Moscow, Zakharova hinted that there were reasons for this decision.

“Perhaps Russian investigators, conducting an objective investigation, would come to an uncomfortable conclusion … about who carried out this act of sabotage, terrorism. About who thought of it and who carried it out,” he told reporters.

Zakharova said Sweden was “hiding” facts about what it discovered in the investigation, saying “Swedish authorities have something to hide”.

Sweden and other European investigators say these are deliberate attacks, but have not said who they think is responsible. Moscow, without providing evidence, attributed the blasts to western sabotage.

Construction of Nord Stream 2, designed to bring Russian gas to Germany, was completed in September 2021, but the pipeline never went into operation as Berlin suspended its certification just days before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February.

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