Russia intends to put renewed pressure on the UN Security Council in order to conduct an international investigation into the explosions in the Nord Stream gas pipelines last September, the spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said today.

Explosions caused cracks in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline as well as in Nord Stream 2, which had just been built, carrying gas from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea. Russia has repeatedly said the West was behind the blasts. The West and Ukraine have denied any involvement.

“We will now bring the UN Security Council back to an examination of this issue,” Zakharova said at the regular press conference. She said the three western permanent members of the Security Council — the United States, Britain and France — had previously blocked Russia’s efforts to ensure a “transparent” investigation into what happened to the pipelines.

Russia and China are also permanent members of the UN Security Council. The Kremlin said on Wednesday that it was reviewing all available information about the attacks.

In recent months, American newspapers such as the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have reported that the CIA knew about a Ukrainian plot to attack the pipelines. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has denied that Ukraine attacked the pipelines. American and European officials initially suggested that Moscow had blown up its own pipelines, an interpretation that Russian President Vladimir Putin called foolish.