The Kremlin said on Thursday that it doubts that attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September last year could have been carried out without state support.
The comments by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov came after the New York Times reported this week that US officials are investigating whether a pro-Ukraine non-governmental group was responsible for the blasts.
“As for the pro-Ukrainian angle, the idea that some villain organized it is hard to believe. It was a very difficult task, which probably only a well-trained state special service was capable of, and there are not so many of them in our world,” Peskov said when asked about the report.
The New York Times reported on Tuesday that new intelligence reviewed by US officials suggests that a pro-Ukraine group, possibly made up of Ukrainians or Russians, attacked the Nord Stream pipelines, but that there are no firm conclusions. .
Russia has repeatedly asked for permission to join investigations into the blasts, which ruptured three of the four Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines that connect Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea.
Investigators in Sweden, Denmark and Germany are conducting separate investigations.
“We continue to demand a prompt and transparent investigation, we continue to demand that we be allowed to participate in this investigation,” Peskov told reporters at a regular Kremlin briefing.
“It is necessary to identify who executed him and who ordered him. Committing a terrorist attack against a critical part of the international energy infrastructure is a very dangerous precedent,” she added.
Source: CNN Brasil
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