"Russia intends to complete the investigation into the terrorist attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipeline by September 2022," Sputnik quoted Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying at a weekly press briefing on September 20.
"We will make every effort, including within the framework of multilateral formats, to ensure that the truth is made public," Zakharova stressed, adding that a UN Security Council meeting on the Nord Stream pipeline attacks is scheduled for September 26.
Western countries are still refusing to cooperate with Moscow in the investigation of the attack on Russian gas pipelines, a spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
Speaking to the press, Ms. Zakharova criticized: "Western countries continue to stubbornly refuse to cooperate with Russia, without giving any clear answers."
Ms. Zakharova pointed out that in the pursuit of what they called "Russia's strategic defeat", Western countries and NATO used all possible methods, even "openly resorting to terrorism".
On September 26, 2022, the Nord Stream pipeline carrying 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 sabotage.
Investigations initiated by Germany, Denmark and Sweden following the attacks did not involve Russia and produced no meaningful results. In 2024, both Sweden and Denmark announced the end of their investigations into the pipeline explosion.
On September 14, 2024, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz affirmed that "nothing is being covered up in the investigation into sabotage of the Nord Stream 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," Chancellor Scholz said on September 14.
