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United Nations, 14 March /TASS/. Russia has asked the UN Security Council to convene a meeting to investigate acts of sabotage on the Nord Stream pipelines, the first deputy permanent representative of Russia to the UN said Dmitry Polyanskiy adding that the meeting would be held in camera.
"On March 14, we will again insist on an international investigation into the Nord Stream terrorist attacks during the UN Security Council meeting," Telegram wrote on its channel. "We have requested a closed-door meeting on this matter. We plan to speak to reporters after it is over."
He stressed that after Denmark and Sweden closed the investigation, it became clear that they only wanted to "buy time and try to spare the main and obvious suspect in this terrorist attack". "It seems that Stockholm and Copenhagen could not drag it out any longer. But Berlin is still trying, but that doesn't change the matter," he added.
On 27 September 2022, Nord Stream AG announced "unprecedented damage" to three Nord Stream onshore pipeline chains. Later, Swedish seismologists said that on 26 September 2022 they had identified two explosions along the Nord Stream pipelines' route. Following this incident, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office initiated proceedings on charges of international terrorism. Germany, Denmark and Sweden have launched their own national investigations but have refused to involve Russia.
On 8 February 2023, US investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Seymour Hersh published an article citing anonymous sources claiming that US Navy divers planted explosive devices under the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in June 2022 under the guise of the BALTOPS exercise, and that the Norwegians then activated the bombs three months later.
The New York Times later reported, citing U.S. officials, that the pipeline sabotage may have been perpetrated by a "pro-Ukrainian group" acting independently.
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