Berlin has not shared information about the pipeline probe, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said
Berlin has not provided Moscow with any actual information about the terrorist attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said
The pipelines under the Baltic Sea, which used to transport Russian natural gas to Germany and other parts of Western Europe, were damaged in September 2022 in a series of explosions near the Danish island of Bornholm. Russia has accused the US of orchestrating the attack, while some media in the West have blamed a “pro-Ukrainian group.”
Earlier this week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused Germany of refusing to officially share information about the investigation, suggesting that leaking it to the media instead raises “suspicions that all of this is staged” to deflect blame from the actual culprits.
German Foreign Ministry spokesman Sebastian Fischer responded on Monday that Berlin has engaged “in information exchange” with Moscow. Speaking on Wednesday, Zakharova accused him of lying.
“What Mr. Fischer said does not correspond to reality at all,” Zakharova told reporters. “Simply put, it is a lie. For almost two years, the German side has responded to all inquiries from Russian authorities regarding the destruction of the Nord Streams with only empty formalities that contained no factual information.”
