Russia accused the British navy of attacking Nord Stream gas pipelines

The Russian Defense Ministry provided no evidence that one of the leading countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) had sabotaged critical infrastructure, at the time of heightened tension between the West and Russia since the war Fría.La ministry accused “British specialists” of the same unit directed Ukrainian drone strikes against ships of the Russian Black Sea fleet in Crimea early on Saturday that, He said they were largely repelled by Russian forces, with minor damage to an ammine minesweeper. According to the information available, representatives of this unit of the British Navy participated in the planning, provision and execution of a terrorist attack in the Baltic Sea on September 26 this year, blowing up the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines,” the ministry said.
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For its part, Britain defended itself against the accusations and stated, “To divert attention from its disastrous handling of the illegal invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense resorts to promoting false claims of epic scale,” he said. This fabricated story says more about the discussions within the Russian government than about the West,” he added. Russia has previously blamed the West for the explosions that last month ruptured the Russian-built Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines on the bed of the Baltic Sea.However, Russia had never given specific details about who it held responsible for damage to the pipelines, which were once Russia’s largest energy supply routes to Europe.

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