NewsEuropeThe Kremlin says that the finding of "traces of explosives" in the Nord Stream "confirms" its information

The Kremlin says that the finding of “traces of explosives” in the Nord Stream “confirms” its information

FILE – Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov. – KREMLIN POOL / ZUMA PRESS / CONTACT PHOTO

MADRID, November 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Kremlin has stressed that Sweden’s announcement about the discovery of “traces of explosives” in the Nord Stream gas pipeline after the leaks detected in September “again confirms the Russian information”, while stressing that it is “very important”. locate “those who were behind this explosion.”

“The fact that data has begun to arrive confirming a sabotage or a terrorist act, call it what you want, confirms again the information that Russia had and has,” said the spokesman for the Russian Presidency, Dimitri Peskov, who has asked ” wait for a full assessment of the damage” suffered by the gas pipeline.

“We have to analyze the data before the experts adopt a conclusion on the possibility of recovering it,” he explained, before indicating that Moscow “will be patient.” Thus, she has outlined that Sweden and Denmark “cannot take any decision” on the reactivation of gas shipments through the Nord Stream.

In this sense, Peskov has emphasized that these countries “are not directly related to the operations or technical details” surrounding the gas pipeline, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.

Hours earlier, the Swedish prosecutor investigating the incident, Mats Ljungqvist, has detailed that the investigations into the leaks detected in September in the Nord Stream have made it possible to find “traces of explosives”, which confirms the thesis that the gas pipeline was subject of “blatant sabotage”.

The operating company of the Nord Stream, Nord Stream AG, indicated after the events of September that the damage suffered by three of the pipelines “is unprecedented”, after a gas leak in one of the sections of Nord Stream 2 and a pressure loss in the Nord Stream 1.

The authorities of Germany, Denmark and Sweden have excluded Russia from the investigations into what happened, which has led to a formal protest from Moscow, which has warned that it will not recognize the result of any report in which it has not participated.

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