The Ambassador spoke about Denmark’s refusals in the Nord Stream case

Russian Ambassador to Denmark Vladimir Barbin said that Copenhagen several times refused Moscow’s requests in the case of undermining the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines. About this Barbin told in a written commentary for RIA Novosti.

“No substantive progress has occurred. There is still no interaction with Denmark in the investigation of explosions on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines. “Denmark refused to Russia not only to conduct a joint investigation into these sabotages, but also to fulfill most requests for legal assistance in this criminal case,” he said.

According to Barbin, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office received a response to only one request. This happened in June. At the time, Copenhagen reported that the cylindrical object discovered in February had been recovered from the bottom of the Baltic Sea and was determined to be an empty, used smoke buoy.

On the night of September 26, 2022, pressure dropped on the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines, and later two leaks were discovered, which were located in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of Sweden, and two more in the EEZ of Denmark. It was then established that the pipelines were undermined; only one of the Nord Stream 2 lines survived, but it is not used for gas supplies, since Germany did not allow the pipeline to be put into operation after its construction was completed.

Already in October of the same year, Sweden announced the completion of the investigation, declaring “increased suspicions of gross sabotage,” but those responsible for the incident were never named. Russian authorities blamed Western countries for the gas pipeline explosions.

At the end of last year, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that the investigation into the explosions had not yet led to a result. At the same time, Western media have repeatedly drawn attention to the Ukrainian trace in what happened. In particular, in March, The New York Times newspaper reported about the involvement of a “pro-Ukrainian group” in sabotage on the Nord Streams. At the same time, the German Die Zeit stated that a Ukrainian ship could have been involved in the sabotage, on which traces of explosives were found. The Kremlin doubted these data and named messages by “coordinated injection”.