For recent developments in the explosions of September 26, 2022, which caused damage to the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea, the UN Security Council met at the request of Russia.

On August 21, 2025, the German Attorney General had announced the arrest of a Ukrainian, suspect as the explosion coordinator. The man, who was identified only as “Sergei K.” For the sake of protection of personal data, he was arrested in Italy based on a European warrant. Germany claims to have belonged to a team that placed the explosives after sailing from the port of Rostok. On September 3, 2025, it is expected to examine its issuance.

Russia cites the arrest of Sergi K. and speaks of “delays and lack of transparency” of German research. Denmark, Germany and Sweden rejected Russian allegations of opacity. On August 22, Germany, in a letter to the UN (S/2025/530) that was sent together with Denmark and Sweden, reiterated that German research is impartial and independent, according to the rule of law, and that “reports on the media do not replace the investigations that require confidentiality”.

At the meeting, Assistant Secretary General Miroslav Gentzia emphasized that the UN is based solely on public information or data transmitted by the Member States concerned and is unable to confirm conflicting allegations.

He said that between 26 and 29 September 2022, four leaks were recorded in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, in international waters within the economic zones of Sweden and Denmark. Although the pipes did not work, they contained large quantities of gas. Research coordinated by UNEP and published in January 2025 showed that leaks released 445,000-485,000 tonnes of methane-twice as high as the initial estimates-constituting the largest anthropogenic methane emission recorded. The short -term imprint is equivalent to the annual eight million -million -cars.

Mr Gentzia called on Member States to avoid politicization and speculation, stressing that the protection of critical infrastructure is fundamental to security, stability and the environment. He urged enhanced cooperation and exchange of information, stressing that the destruction of such infrastructure has serious regional and global impacts.

Ans. A permanent representative of Greece Ioannis Stamatekos condemned all attacks on civilians and energy infrastructure and stressed that the Council is not the appropriate forum for the debate of internal legal or judicial issues.

He expressed his support for Germany’s ongoing research on the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline and thanked Denmark and Sweden for their respective research.

Speaking to the Security Council, Denmark expressed its full confidence in the German authorities to investigate explosions in the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022.

The Danish spokesman recalled that one of the explosions occurred within the Danish EEZ, which led to a separate national research.

“Our authorities concluded that the pipelines were deliberately sabotaged, but there were insufficient reasons for criminal prosecution in Denmark,” he noted, stressing cooperation with international partners and respecting the principles of the rule of law.

Denmark, he said, has informed the Council with seven joint letters along with Germany and Sweden, while providing bilateral updates to Russia. The invocation of non -information was characterized by Denmark “inaccurate and unacceptable falsification of events”.

The Denmark spokesman also denounced Russia’s “hypocrisy”, which while constantly demanding meetings for Nord Stream, “at the same time systematically destroying Ukraine’s critical infrastructure.”

The US expressed their full confidence in the independent judicial process in Germany, stressing that “the arrest of a suspect is a step in the process, which continues, but this development does not require the Council’s attention”.

President Trump, the US spokesman said, “is focused on one goal: achieving a sustainable peace in Ukraine through negotiation to end human suffering. We call on Russia to focus on this goal.”

“Let’s not waste the time and attention of this council in an incident that happened almost three years ago, but let’s focus on ending the war in Ukraine,” the US spokesman said.

Ans. Russian Permanent Representative Dmitry Polianzki told the correspondents that “they are asking us to believe that a group of amateur divers is ie to place a device, an explosive mechanism, at a depth of 80 meters in the center of the Baltic Sea, which is not watched by them. They acted autonomously.

Mr Paulianzki added that “we are not saying that these people are not involved and would be very interested in learning the details of German research, but, in our understanding, they may be just scapegoats”.

The problem, he said, is not in what has been found, but in the fact that “the international community is being held in the dark for such research for almost three years, and those behind it have not yet been held accountable for what they have done”.

It is noted that the UN Security Council has been dealing with the Nord Stream issue many times since 2022, with Russia convening at least ten meetings, with the latter taking place on October 4, 2024. Moscow submitted a resolution plan (March 27, 2023) for international independent research. Three plans for presidential statements have also failed to be adopted due to lack of consensus.