As if nothing had happened. A few hours after The New York Times would have suggested that a pro-Kiev group was responsible for the recent sabotage against gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2the NATO Defense Ministers held a working meeting in Stockholm on Wednesday attended by their Ukrainian counterpart, Oleksi Reznikov, who in statements to the press, has categorically denied any participation of his country in the attacks. Far from pointing the accusing finger at anyone, political leaders and leaders from NATO, the EU, Germany or Sweden, the states most affected by the attack, have demanded to wait for the ongoing investigations to offer more concrete results.
“For me this story is a bit strange; it has no nothing to see with us and the official investigation will describe all the details; it is not our activity”, Reznikov asserted in a confident tone before the journalists upon his arrival at the Stockholm conference. The person in charge, who did nothing more than repeat the denials pronounced the day before by other leaders of his country regarding the newspaper American released the information, citing US intelligence sources, has reiterated that he was not concerned about what the investigations might reveal.
His colleagues from the Atlantic Alliance and The EU They have avoided, throughout the day, speculating about the authorship of the explosions, and have requested, practically in unison, to wait for the end of the investigations. Pal Johnson, the Swedish minister and host of the summit, has responded to inquiries from informers with a simple “no comment“, incidentally emphasizing that his country had launched an investigation that, for the moment, had not offered conclusive data. He also wanted to highlight that the discussions between the NATO ministers focused on how to maintain aid to Ukraine and that at no time had the information released the day before by The New York Times.
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In very similar terms, the German Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius, who has wanted that, after the attacks, measures be adopted to defend the “critical infrastructure at sea” in coordination with NATO and the Baltic states. The Secretary General of the Atlantic Alliance, Jens Stoltenberghas assured that he is unaware of the authorship of the actions, and has asked “not to speculate who is behind it until the investigations and preparations have concluded”, statements almost identical to those verbalized by Josep BorrellHigh Representative of the EU for Foreign Policy: “I cannot comment on things for which I do not have clear evidence and information”.
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Some investigations that, as far as Germany is concerned, are beginning to yield results. The Karlsruhe prosecutor’s office, in charge of the most sensitive cases, has reported that between January 18 and 20 it ordered a search of a ship that “it suspects could be transporting explosives.” German rotaries like Die Zeit, as well as German television channels ZDF and ARD They have offered additional details, assuring that the ship in question had been chartered by a company based in Poland that belongs to “two ukrainians“, and who had left the port of Rostock on September 6 with six people on board, including divers and a doctor. The ship was returned without cleaning and, thanks to this circumstance, inside the researchers have found “traces of explosives,” writes Die Zeit, publication that maintains that, despite the fact that the tracks “lead to Ukraine, investigators have not yet been able to identify” the saboteurs.
For his part, from Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has demanded an “impartial investigation”, while the Kremlin has rejected the version of a pro-Ukrainian group, describing it as little less than a “media plot” aimed at diverting attention from the real perpetrators, which it has always identified as “the anglo saxons“.