MOSCOW, November 8. /TASS/. Western countries have so far failed to tell Moscow what conclusions, if any, have been drawn in the investigation into the explosions that hit the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

"As for the Nord Stream pipelines, we have been unable to get a clear answer to the question of who is looking into the terrorist attack after all this time, over a year already. Germany, Norway and Sweden, which are conducting national probes into the incident, have all failed to tell us anything concrete or meaningful," the top Russian diplomat pointed out at a roundtable discussion on ways to resolve the Ukraine issue.

Lavrov noted that authorities in Western countries were doing everything possible "to paper over any information on the matter." "Well, in fact, this has become the West’s trademark," the Russian foreign minister added.

Nord Stream explosions

The Nord Stream AG company reported on September 27, 2022, that three threads of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 offshore gas pipelines had suffered unprecedented damage. Swedish seismologists recorded two explosions along the Nord Stream pipelines on September 26. The Russian Prosecutor General's Office opened a case into an act of international terrorism over damage to the pipelines. Germany, Denmark and Sweden announced separate national investigations but refused to involve Russia in the investigative procedures.

On February 8, 2023, Pulitzer Prize-winning US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh wrote in an article, citing a source, that US Navy divers, with the assistance of Norwegian specialists, had planted explosive devices under the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines with the assistance of Norwegian specialists under the cover of the BALTOPS exercise in June 2022. According to Hersh, US President Joe Biden made the decision to conduct the operation following nine months of consultations with national security officials.