“Contrary to logic”: the Russian Embassy announced the desire of the United States to “sweep under the carpet” uncomfortable questions about Nord Stream

The statement by Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Jake Sullivan on the situation with sabotage on the international gas pipelines of Nord Stream is an example of the demonization of Russia.

This is stated in the comments of the Russian Embassy in Washington.

The diplomatic mission noted that the American official, on the one hand, advocated a comprehensive analysis of the incident in the Baltic Sea and refused to "speculate about those responsible for the obvious act of sabotage", but at the same time, contradicting himself and elementary logic, categorically ruled out the involvement of the States and their allies. by NATO to organize attacks.

“Such statements, as well as Jake Sullivan’s attempt to draw public attention to the alleged risks of physical and cyber attacks on Western infrastructure by Russia, are another example of the unfounded demonization of our country.

We see in him Russophobia deeply rooted in Washington and a desire to manipulate public opinion.

The desire to “sweep under the carpet” uncomfortable questions about who actually benefits from the break in energy ties between Moscow and European capitals, ”the statement says.

Russian diplomats called for a comprehensive and objective study of all the circumstances of this state of emergency.

On September 30, Joe Biden's national security aide Jake Sullivan said during a briefing that the White House was not inclined to believe that any of the NATO countries was responsible for the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines.

"Unconditional benefit for the USA"

Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya, speaking at a meeting of the UN Security Council on sabotage against the Nord Stream gas pipeline, noted that the incident is of "unconditional" benefit to the United States.

According to him, after the incident, American liquefied gas suppliers "should celebrate a multiple increase in LNG supplies to the European continent."

At the same time, he pointed out that for Russia "it makes no sense to destroy the project with its own hands", in which "colossal volumes of investments" were invested and from which "significant economic returns" were expected.

“After all, in the West you yourself claimed that we are cashing in on the export of energy resources and benefiting from rising prices for them,” Nebenzya noted.

The diplomat added that Russia is in favor of a comprehensive investigation to clarify the true circumstances of the incident.

“It is absolutely clear to us that the implementation of sabotage of such complexity and scale is beyond the power of ordinary terrorists.

We consider actions to damage gas pipelines as a deliberate sabotage against the most important facility of the energy infrastructure of the Russian Federation,” Nebenzya said.

“We will definitely identify all those involved in this sabotage.

Any international investigation of what happened can claim to be objective only if Russia is involved in it.”

• Speech by Vasily Nebenzya

“Whoever benefits, he did, of course”

On the afternoon of September 30, Vladimir Putin said that those who benefit from the deteriorating energy situation on the European continent are responsible for the sabotage against Nord Stream.

“But sanctions are not enough for the Anglo-Saxons, they have switched to sabotage — unbelievable, but true — having organized explosions on the Nord Stream international gas pipelines that run along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, they have actually begun to destroy the pan-European energy infrastructure.

It is clear to everyone who benefits from this.

Whoever benefits, he did, of course, ”said the President of the Russian Federation.

It should be noted that, in addition to the two lines of Nord Stream, there was also an explosion on one of the lines of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

According to the official representative of "Gazprom" Sergey Kupriyanov, at the time of the emergency they had about 800 million cubic meters.

m of gas, which is comparable to the consumption of Denmark for three months.

“Now we have begun to look for possible solutions for the resumption of the Nord Stream system.

It is currently impossible to estimate the timing of such work, the timing of restoring the system's performance.

We can say for sure that this is a very difficult technical task,” Kupriyanov said.