Politico's latest news on the Nord Stream case said that on August 22, Russia responded to Czech President Petr Pavel's public statement that the Nord Stream pipeline could be a legitimate target of attack in the context of conflict. suddenly.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova shared: "I have read this speculation, in the past only representatives of international terrorist groups spoke of such ideas."
News reports in recent weeks about the Nord Stream incident said that Ukrainian agents were likely behind the attack on the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea in September 2022. The attack caused many lines of the two gas pipelines Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 connecting Russia and Germany to rupture.
Last week, the media said that after a 19-month Nord Stream investigation to identify the culprit who exploded the gas pipeline in the Baltic, Berlin issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian diving instructor.
On August 21, President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel commented on the latest developments in the Nord Stream case on the PoliTalk podcast: "An armed conflict broke out not only against military targets but also against strategic goal. And the gas pipeline is a strategic goal."
The Czech President emphasized that he did not have "clear information accusing Ukraine of actually being behind the attack" but hypothesized that if the attack was intended to cut off oil and gas supplies to Europe as well as prevent If the money flows back to Russia, "that would be a legitimate target." "But I don't have that information" - the Czech politician noted.
In April, United Nations officials said the United Nations did not have the authority to verify any claims related to the Nord Stream explosion , but many members of delegations condemned the attack, emphasizing This is an attack on civilian infrastructure that threatens Europe's economic and energy security. Wholesale gas and electricity prices in the EU reached record highs in the second half of 2022, mainly due to disruptions in fuel flows from Russia.
On September 27, 2022, Nord Stream AG reported "unprecedented damage" to 3 out of 4 lines of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline systems . Immediately afterwards, Swedish seismologists announced that explosions with the Nord Stream pipeline have been identified since September 26. After the Nord Stream sabotage, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal investigation for international terrorism.
