MOSCOW, October 3. /TASS/. There is no clarity as to how long it will take to repair the Nord Stream gas pipelines and what countries Russia could partner with on this, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
"No, there is no such understanding. There is an understanding that it needs to be restored, there is an understanding that, in general, anything can be restored," Peskov said, answering questions about the time frame for repairs on the damaged gas pipelines Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 and whether Russia will do it alone or request international assistance. According to him, the answers to these questions "are now up in the air."
"It is not clear what international cooperation we can count on in this situation, considering such a hysterically antagonistic position by the entire collective West towards our country," Peskov said.
He added that it's still necessary to study these areas and find out "what's down there, what's on the bottom, in order to understand the scale of the disaster."
Four leaks were discovered last week on the Nord Stream gas link, with the most recent one pinpointed by Sweden’s coast guard. Earlier, the Nord Stream AG company reported that three threads of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 offshore gas pipelines had suffered unprecedented damage on September 26. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that Moscow was "deeply concerned about the news" and did not rule out that the pipelines’ operation could have been disrupted by an act of sabotage. Swedish seismologists later revealed that two explosions had been recorded along the Nord Stream pipelines on September 26. The Danish Energy Agency reported that a large amount of gas had spilled into the sea.