According to RIA Novosti, the Russian Embassy in the United States said that the United States is trying to hide behind the investigation of the "Nord Stream" incident by its allies.
According to reports, the Russian Embassy in the United States said that the United States tried to do everything in its power to prevent just efforts to find out the truth about the terrorist attack on the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
Data map: A leak occurred in the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline.
The Russian Satellite News Agency quoted Igor Kovalev, first deputy director of the Department of World Economics and World Politics at the Higher School of Economics of the Russian National Research University, as saying that Western countries abstained from voting on the international investigation into the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline because they feared that the truth would be widely known.
On the 27th local time, the United Nations Security Council held an extraordinary meeting to vote and failed to adopt the draft resolution proposed by Russia on the establishment of an investigation committee to conduct an international investigation into the destruction of the "Nord Stream" pipeline.
"Western countries abstained, did not block a formal investigation, and did not vote against. They have an argument about this, because the official findings have not yet been published and cannot be officially attributed to anyone. Kovalev said.
He noted that most sane people understand who is responsible for terrorist attacks, but against this background, the West is playing "its own game."
Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said on the 28th that Russia regretted that the United Nations Security Council did not adopt a draft resolution on the international investigation of the "Nord Stream" pipeline explosion.
In September 2022, the Nord Stream pipeline, which carries natural gas from Russia to Europe via the Baltic Sea, exploded, an incident widely considered "deliberate sabotage." Russia has repeatedly called for a joint investigation, but Western countries have refused.
In February 2023, Seymour Hersh, a well-known American investigative journalist, posted an article breaking the news that the "Nord Stream" pipeline was secretly damaged by US intelligence agencies and US military personnel. The U.S. government denies this. On March 2, U.S. media reported with U.S. government officials as sources that a pro-Ukrainian group was responsible for the bombing. Ukrainian Defense Minister Reznikov immediately denied that the Ukrainian side was related to the bombing. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the explosion of the Nord Stream gas pipeline is a terrorist attack at the national level.