BEIJING, September 26. /TASS/. The absence of results of the investigation of the sabotage on the Nord Stream gas pipeline shows that the EU is being completely controlled by the US, says Wang Zaibang, international relations expert of the Taihe Institute, China.

"This incident shows that the European elite, it seems, is being completely controlled by the US. European countries no longer have a sovereign ability to resolve issue that involve their basic interests," the expert told TASS.

According to Wang Zaibang, politicians and mass media in most countries are well aware of who is behind the gas pipeline sabotage.

"Only the country that would benefit the most could cut the energy artery between Russia and Europe so decisively. Needless to say it is the US," the expert said.

Commenting on the investigation, carried out by Denmark, Germany and Sweden, he said that the main problem "is not the lack of results, but them not daring to say them out loud."

The expert speculated that the sabotage plan was conceived by Washington, and executed by the UK.

"The US and British Navy have technical capabilities to do such things," the analyst noted.

Nord Stream AG 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 subsequently opened a case into an act of international terrorism. Germany, Denmark and Sweden launched separate national investigations but refused to involve Russia in the investigative procedures. Reports, citing various sources, emerged later in the US and European media claiming that Ukrainian groups unaffiliated with the Kiev authorities may have been involved in the sabotage.

Pulitzer Prize-winning US journalist Seymour Hersh, in turn, maintained, citing intelligence sources, that the terrorist attack had been carried out by a US military underwater demolition team on orders from President Joe Biden.