Russian President Vladimir Putin does not believe Ukraine was involved in the Nord Stream pipeline explosion in September 2022. According to Putin, who has dismissed the allegation as “utter nonsense”, such an action can only be carried out by specialists. “For that there must be support from a state that has the necessary technology,” the president said in a televised interview.
When asked who might be behind the explosions, Putin declined to elaborate. “One always has to wonder who benefits from this,” he said. “And who benefits from that? Possibly the United States, which benefits from stopping Russian energy carriers en route to Europe.”
Putin also claimed that a ship belonging to the Russian oil giant Gazprom had found evidence of a strange device on the gas pipeline some 30 kilometers from one of the explosion sites. Something was detected at the pipe joint that experts thought could be “an antenna to receive a signal and detonate an explosive device,” it said.
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On September 26 last year, the explosions on the Nord Stream I and II pipelines took place. Those pipes are located at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Germany, Sweden and Denmark have already opened investigations into the explosions, but have not yet been able to identify the perpetrators.
Last week it became known that a group of six people with forged passports had rented a yacht and placed the explosives about eighty meters deep in the sea. German, British and American media speculated about the involvement of a pro-Ukrainian group. But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called that claim “ridiculous”.
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