Russia says it holds evidence of US, UK role in Nord Stream blasts

MOSCOW -- Russia has evidence of the involvement of the United States and Britain in the explosions of the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.

Russia will release the evidence based on what is most practical and on how the situation around the investigation into the incident will develop, Zakharova noted.

The spokesperson added that Moscow has repeatedly offered to cooperate with relevant parties on the investigation but received no response.

Previously, Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, said that the United States and Britain were directly involved in the Nord Streams explosions.

On Sept 26, 2022, the Nord Stream pipelines transporting natural gas from Russia to Europe were ruptured in a series of explosions underneath the Baltic Sea near Sweden and Denmark. Sweden, Denmark, and Germany have called the incident a deliberate act of sabotage.

The investigations that Germany, Denmark and Sweden had initiated following the attacks excluded Russia and led to no meaningful results. In 2024, both Sweden and Denmark announced they would be concluding their probes into the pipeline explosions.