Novak predicted Europe’s energy poverty after the emergency at Nord Stream

MOSCOW, 14 Oct — PRIME. The organizers of the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines undermined the energy security of Europe and doomed the region to energy poverty, said Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak.

“Europe, for its energy security, what happened has actually nullified its energy security. It has made Europe energy poor, in fact. Those who conceived and carried out this terrorist act simply plunged Europe into energy poverty, let’s say so,” Novak noted.

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

Agence France Presse said, citing the Prime Minister of the Swedish transitional government, Magdalena Andersson, that Stockholm does not plan to allow Russia to investigate sabotage on gas pipelines. In this regard, the Russian Foreign Ministry made a demarche to the ambassadors of Germany, Denmark and Sweden, saying that it would not recognize the results of the investigation if Russian specialists did not participate in it.