WASHINGTON, September 30 – Novosti. The US administration is not inclined to believe that any of the NATO member countries is responsible for the accident on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Jake Sullivan, the US presidential aide for national security, said on Friday.
“Our assessment is that none of the NATO countries were involved in this,” Sullivan said during a briefing, answering a question about whether Washington excludes the possibility that one of the European countries is responsible for what happened.
On Monday, terrorist attacks took place simultaneously on two Russian gas export pipelines to Europe . Germany , Denmark and Sweden do not rule out targeted sabotage. The Russian side officially requested information from Denmark about the emergency at Nord Stream as soon as the incident became known. The Danish authorities notified the Russian Federation about the explosions at the site of the gas leak. The operator of Nord Stream, Nord Stream AG, reported that the emergency on gas pipelines was unprecedented, and it was impossible to estimate the timing of repairs.
The work of Nord Stream has been suspended since the end of August due to problems with the repair of Siemens turbines caused by Western sanctions. However, the pipeline remained filled with gas. Nord Stream 2 , completed in 2021 but never put into operation, was also already filled with gas.
The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation initiated the initiation of a case on an act of international terrorism after the damage to the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
