Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that it is “clear” that the United States ordered the 2022 attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
His comment followed reports that German prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian man over the blasts on the pipelines, which carried Russian gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea, while The Wall Street Journal reported the explosions were carried out by a Ukrainian crew and approved by Kyiv’s then military commander-in-chief.
Speaking to reporters during a visit to Azerbaijan on Monday, Lavrov doubled down on Moscow’s long-stated claims that the West was involved.
“It is clear that to carry out such a terrorist attack, there was a command from the very top, as they say. The very top for the West is, of course, Washington,” Lavrov told Izvestia newspaper in a video interview published on its Telegram channel.
Lavrov, however, did not present clear evidence of his claim.
He said there were “attempts to blame everything on a group of drunken officers”, something he branded “not serious”.
The US had no immediate response to Lavrov’s latest assertion but has previously dismissed Russian suggestions of its involvement.
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