The Foreign Ministry said that energy cooperation between Russia and the EU is now in question

MOSCOW, 6 Oct — PRIME. Energy cooperation between Moscow and the European Union in the light of the terrorist attacks on the Nord Stream and the position of Brussels is a big question mark, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.

“Brussels clearly does not intend to reconsider its course of abandoning energy cooperation with Russia. Now this is generally a big question, given the sabotage on the gas pipeline,” Zakharova said at a briefing.

The attacks took place on September 26 at once on two Russian export gas pipelines to Europe – Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2. Germany, Denmark and Sweden do not rule out targeted sabotage. The Nord Stream operator Nord Stream AG reported that the state of emergency on gas pipelines is unprecedented and it is impossible to estimate the repair time.

Gazprom reported on October 3 that the pressure in the damaged Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines had stabilized, gas leaks had stopped, and gas was being pumped out of another Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to check its integrity. In turn, the Swedish Coast Guard said that day that a “smaller” leak from Nord Stream 2 was continuing and even increasing slightly.

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. Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod announced the government’s determination to refuse Russia’s participation in the investigation of the sabotage and the identification of those responsible.