Russia accuses British Navy of blowing up Nord Stream gas pipelines

This is announced in the statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation regarding the drone attack on the bay of temporarily occupied Sevastopol (Crimea, Ukraine).

According to the Russian officials, "British experts" also helped the Ukrainian forces to attack Sevastopol Bay from the air.

"According to the obtained data, the UK Navy representatives took part in planning, organizing and carrying out the terrorist act in the Baltic Sea on September 26, 2022 to blow up the Nord Stream-1 and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines," Russian Ministry of Defence said in a statement.

In turn, the UK’s Ministry of Defence said the accusations made up by Russia were "false claims of an epic scale.”

“To detract from their disastrous handling of the illegal invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defence is resorting to peddling false claims of an epic scale. This invented story, says more about arguments going on inside the Russian government than it does about the west,” the British ministry of defence wrote on Twitter.

• On September 26, a sudden drop in pressure occurred in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

• Subsequently, it became known that a man-made explosion in the TNT equivalent of about 700 kg damaged the Nord Stream-1 and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea.

• An inspection of two of the leaks at the Nord Stream pipelines conducted by Sweden reinforced the version of sabotage.

• In Denmark, "well-planned powerful explosions" were named as the reason behind the leaks in the Nord Stream pipelines as well.