Russia says Washington is the biggest beneficiary of Nord Stream explosion
(Baonghean.vn) - According to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, fact-based logic shows that Washington, specifically the administration of US President Joe Biden, is the party most likely to benefit from the Nord Stream explosion.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Russia will continue to emphasize the need to conduct a transparent investigation into the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline that occurred in September 2022.
"We will wait for the results of the investigation. Even if the West does not complete the investigation, there is still an investigation going on here. On the international stage, we will continue to constantly emphasize the need for transparency," the diplomat told Sputnik radio.
According to Ms. Zakharova, fact-based logic suggests that Washington, specifically the administration of US President Joe Biden, is the party most likely to benefit from the Nord Stream explosions.
The diplomat stressed that in the period before the sanctions, Russia "and the countries of the European Union achieved excellent results, building real and practical integration in the economic sphere, including the energy sector."
“This is precisely one of the reasons why the United States… began to target those relations,” the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman noted.
She added that the US simply could not accept such a relationship between Russia and the EU and therefore took radical measures to break it.
On September 27, 2022, Nord Stream AG reported that three offshore gas pipeline branches of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines had suffered unprecedented damage. Swedish seismologists recorded two explosions along the Nord Stream pipeline on September 26. The Russian Prosecutor General's Office opened an investigation into international terrorism related to the damage to the pipeline. US investigative reporter Seymour Hersh later published an article claiming that US Navy divers, with the assistance of Norwegian experts, planted explosive devices under the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in June 2022. Meanwhile, the New York Times, citing US officials, reported that a "pro-Ukrainian" group may have carried out the sabotage of the gas pipeline.
