Russia assured this Tuesday that it will seek a vote by the United Nations Security Council this month on a proposal to launch an international investigation into the attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines last September.
The Russian delegation had already circulated a draft resolution to that effect and today responded to a report from The New York Times, according to new information analyzed by US authorities suggesting that the sabotage was carried out by a pro-Ukrainian group.
“It shows that we are doing the right thing in pushing for a UN Security Council resolution to launch an international investigation led by the UN Secretary-General into the Nord Stream sabotage,” the deputy said. Ambassador of Russia on Twitter. , Dmitry Polyansky.
The diplomat pointed out that Council countries have already held three expert-level consultations on the draft resolution and guaranteed that the vote will “certainly” take place before the end of March.
At the time of the sabotage, Moscow blamed the “Anglo-Saxon” countries, citing opposition to the project that Washington has maintained for years because it supposedly generates European dependence on Russian gas, while some Western countries pointed in the opposite direction. .
The attacks on the gas pipelines, which were not in use, caused two leaks in each, two in the Danish zone and two in the Swedish zone, all in international waters.
According to US officials, quoted by The New York Times, there is no evidence that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky or his close advisers were involved in the operation.
A joint investigation by several German media outlets was also released today, stating that investigations by the country’s authorities into the attack have found traces leading to Ukraine.
German investigators managed to reconstruct how the explosion happened and identified a ship supposedly used in the operation, leased by a company in Poland owned by two Ukrainian citizens, according to the aforementioned press, including the public television network “ARD”.
The placement of the explosives was carried out by a six-person team consisting of a captain, two divers, two diving assistants and a doctor, whose nationality was not clarified, as according to this version they used fake passports to rent the ship. of the documents, events.
Sources from the security services of several European countries consulted by said German media shortly after the September attack found that a Western secret service had already informed the allied countries that the person responsible for the destruction was “a Ukrainian commando” used to be.
Subsequently, other clues emerged in this regard, although at present there is no evidence for the intellectual authorship of the attacks on the gas pipelines, the investigation of the German press revealed.
Source: DN
