MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/. Only NATO forces were capable of attacking the Nord Stream underwater pipelines, while Ukraine had neither equipment nor specialists for the job, Kremlin aide Nikolay Patrushev said in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper.

"Even Danish naval authorities do not hide the fact that American ships were in the area of the explosions the day before. At the same time, anyone interested in the capabilities of foreign navies knows that the Ukrainian Navy has neither equipment nor trained specialists to carry out a deep-sea terrorist attack. Only special-purpose units of NATO countries could carry out a sabotage of that scale," he said.

According to Patrushev, it is known for a fact that US and UK intelligence services have combat swimmers and relevant equipment.

"So calls by [German Chancellor Olaf] Scholz to conduct an allegedly unbiased investigation, with some Ukrainians blamed for the sabotage, sound ridiculous. The US is deliberately depriving Germany of Russian energy resources that it needs so much for its development, while the current German leadership is playing along with those who are essentially destroying the German economy," the official said.