March 8 () –
The Minister Counselor of the Russian Embassy in the United States, Andrey Ledenev, has described the information about the possible involvement of Ukraine in the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline as an attempt to “confuse” those trying to find out who is behind the act. reiterating his pointing to the United States.
“We have no faith in the ‘impartiality’ of the conclusions of US intelligence,” Ledenev has published through the Embassy’s Telegram channel, before adding that they perceive “these anonymous ‘leaks’ as nothing more than an attempt to mislead those who are sincerely trying to get to the bottom of it.”
Thus, he has accused the sources of this information, published by The New York Times, of trying to “blame the statesmen who ordered and coordinated the attacks in the Baltic Sea on some abstract individuals.”
In addition, he has denounced that local authorities and journalists try to “blatantly silence the material of the Pulitzer Prize Seymour Hersh”, which in an information published several weeks ago accused the United States Navy of being behind the explosions registered in September in the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines.
The spokesman for the US State Department, Ned Price, already expressed this Tuesday his confidence in the investigations “of our European colleagues”, and recalled that in addition to the publications in the media, Germany, Sweden and Denmark are also carrying out their own investigations.
Also this Tuesday, the adviser to the Ukrainian Presidency, Mikhailo Podoliak, stressed that kyiv had nothing to do with the sabotage of the gas pipeline, denying the information published by the American newspaper.
