Nord Stream Sabotage: Russian Ambassador Criticizes German Investigation

BERLIN, September 25. /TASS/. Key questions over who carried out the sabotage of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines, who ordered it, and who ultimately benefited remain unanswered, Russia’s ambassador to Germany, Sergey Nechayev, said on the fourth anniversary of the attacks. The text of his statement was published on the embassy’s Telegram channel.

"Four years after the unprecedented terrorist attack on a major piece of European gas infrastructure, key questions concerning the perpetrators, those who ordered the sabotage, and its beneficiaries remain unanswered," the diplomat said. In his view, Germany is engaged in a "leisurely process of picking scapegoats."

"The topic is being pushed out of the public eye," Nechayev said.

He noted that German authorities were "far more concerned about an abandoned, malfunctioning drone found at Leipzig Airport," adding that any alleged link to Russia, as in other similar cases, was based on nothing more than "highly likely" speculation.

Nevertheless, the ambassador said, the German government had deemed this sufficient to close the Russian Consulate General in Bonn and the Russian House in Berlin, while expelling more than 150 Russian employees and their family members from the country.

"These utterly inappropriate measures have been described as a 'measured and proportionate response' to Russian 'hybrid attacks.' It takes quite an imagination to envision what a 'proportionate' response from Berlin would look like in the event of proven involvement by the Kiev regime – and the 'string-pullers' behind it – in the terrorist attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines, which primarily harmed Germany and its citizens," Nechayev emphasized.