EurOil: Russia accuses UK of blowing up Nord Stream pipelines

Russia’s defence ministry has accused British Navy personnel of blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines – a claim that the UK government has rejected, describing it as an attempt to distract from Russian military setbacks in Ukraine.

Without providing evidence, the ministry said that “British specialists” that had directed Ukrainian drone strike attacks on Russia’s Black Sea fleet in Crimea earlier on October 29 were also behind the Nord Stream pipelines’ sabotage. 

“According to available information, representatives of this unit of the British Navy took part in the planning, provision and implementation of a terrorist attack in the Baltic Sea on September 26 this year – blowing up the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines,” the Russian ministry said.

Its UK counterpart rejected this, saying that Russia was “resorting to peddling false claims of an epic scale,” in order “to detract from their disastrous handling of the illegal invasion of Ukraine.” 

“This invented story says more about arguments going on inside the Russian government than it does about the West,” it added.

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