Kremlin insists on Russian participation in Nord Stream investigation

MOSCOW, 5 Oct – PRIME. Statements about the need to exclude Russia from the investigation of incidents on the Nord Stream gas pipelines alarm the Kremlin, Moscow’s participation should be mandatory, said presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

“So far, from those press conferences that were held in Denmark and Sweden, we have heard such alarming statements that any cooperation with the Russian side is excluded. We will certainly wait for some clarifications on this matter,” he said. he.

Peskov stressed that Russia must necessarily participate in the examination of the accident sites and in the investigation of what happened.

A gas leak on the strings of the Russian gas pipelines Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 was discovered on September 26 in the Baltic Sea. According to Swedish seismologists, powerful underwater explosions were recorded in the emergency area the day before. Germany, Denmark and Sweden did not rule out that the incidents could have been the result of targeted sabotage.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation initiated the initiation of a case on an act of international terrorism.