"Russia intends to complete the investigation into the terrorist attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipeline in September 2022," Sputnik quoted Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying at a weekly press conference on September 20.
"We will do our best, including within multilateral formats, to ensure the truth is made public," Zakharova stressed, adding that the UN Security Council meeting on the Nord Stream pipeline attacks is scheduled for September 26.
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said that Western countries still refuse to cooperate with Moscow in the investigation of the attack on Russian gas pipelines.
Speaking to the press, Ms. Zakharova criticized: "Western countries continue to stubbornly refuse to cooperate with the Russian side, without giving any clear answers."
Ms. Zakharova pointed out that in the process of pursuing what they call "Russian strategic failure", Western countries and NATO have used every possible method, even "publicly using it for terrorism".
On September 26, 2022, the Nord Stream pipeline transporting Russian gas to Europe ruptured in a series of explosions under the Baltic Sea near Sweden and Denmark. Sweden, Denmark and Germany called the incident an act of deliberate sabotage.
Investigations initiated by Germany, Denmark and Sweden following the attacks did not involve Russia and did not produce any meaningful results. In 2024, both Sweden and Denmark announced the end of the investigation into the pipeline explosion.
On September 14, 2024, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz affirmed that "nothing is covered up in the investigation into the Nord Stream sabotage pipeline" - a few days after Russia criticized the German investigation as "completely non-transparent".
"berlin hopes to bring the perpetrators of the Nord Stream sabotage to justice if we can catch them," Scholz said on September 14.
