Britain has denied Russian allegations, according to which the British Navy was responsible for the explosions on the Baltic Sea gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2. “To distract from their disastrous handling of the illegal invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry resorts to spreading false claims of epic proportions,” the Defense Ministry tweeted in London on Saturday. “This made-up story says more about disputes within the Russian government than about the West.”
Previously, the Russian Ministry of Defense British forces accused of guiding Ukrainian units in drone strikes on the Russian Black Sea Fleet. “According to available information, representatives of the same British Navy unit were involved in planning, providing and carrying out the terrorist attack in the Baltic Sea to blow up the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines,” the ministry said.
“It’s a blatant lie and we all know it was the Russians,” former Royal Navy Admiral Chris Parry told Sky News. “Russian propaganda always blames everyone else for what they actually did themselves.” The British Navy does not have the ability to blow up the gas pipelines.
At the end of September, after explosions near the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm, four leaks were discovered in the pipelines, each of which runs as a double strand between Russia and Lubmin in north-eastern Germany. The EU and NATO, among others, assume sabotage.
