On Saturday, Russia’s defense ministry said UK navy personnel blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines last month, a claim that London said was false and designed to distract from Russian military failures in Ukraine.
The Russian ministry noted that "British specialists" from the same unit directed Ukrainian drone attacks on ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea earlier on Saturday that it said were largely repelled by Russian forces, with minor damage to a Russian minesweeper.
“According to available information, representatives of this unit of the British Navy took part in the planning, provision, and implementation of a terrorist attack in the Baltic Sea on September 26 this year - blowing up the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines,” the ministry said.
The UK denied the claim.
“To detract from their disastrous handling of the illegal invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defence is resorting to peddling false claims of an epic scale,” the British Defense Ministry highlighted.
“This invented story, says more about arguments going on inside the Russian government than it does about the West.”
Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, stated that Moscow would seek a response from the UN Security Council, saying on social media that the country wanted to draw attention to “a series of terrorist attacks committed against the Russian Federation in the Black and Baltic Seas, including the involvement of Britain in them.”
Russia, deeply isolated by Western countries since its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, had previously blamed the West for explosions that tore apart the Russian-made Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines on the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
However, it has not previously provided specific details of who it believes is responsible for the damage to the pipelines, which were once the largest Russian gas supply corridors to Europe.
Follow the latest news on Google News
