The Russian embassy in the US yesterday said that a report Washington knew of a Ukrainian plan to attack the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines was part of a coordinated Western attempt to confuse the world over the truth.
Citing leaked information posted online, the Washington Post on Tuesday reported that the CIA had learned in June last year, through a European spy agency, that a six-person team of Ukrainian special operations forces intended to blow up the pipelines.
“The coordinated campaign of the West, led by the United States, to confuse the international community is sewn with white threads,” Andrey Ledenev, minister-counselor at the Russian embassy in the US, was quoted as saying in a post on the embassy’s Telegram channel.
“The reason for the proliferating theories and versions, supported by the notorious ‘confidential’ data of the local intelligence community, is simple to the point of banality,” Ledenev wrote.
In September last year, several underwater explosions ruptured the Nord Stream 1 and the newly built Nord Stream 2 pipelines that link Russia and Germany across the Baltic Sea.
The blasts occurred in the economic zones of Sweden and Denmark.
Both countries said the explosions were deliberate, but have yet to determine who was responsible.
Those countries and Germany are investigating.
The Kremlin said in February that the world should know the truth about who sabotaged the pipelines, and that those responsible should be punished after an investigative journalist said US divers blew them up at the behest of the White House.
Russia has repeatedly said the West was behind the blasts.
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