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This article is reproduced from [Xinhuanet];

Xinhua News Agency, Moscow, August 19. According to a report by Russia Today on the 19th, Oleg Gapkin, Director of the Third European Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that Russia has formally asked Germany to investigate the explosion of the "Nord Stream" natural gas pipeline.

Tyapkin told the media that Germany has put a Ukrainian citizen on the wanted list as a suspect of terrorist acts in the Baltic Sea. Given that the German media has long spread the view that the perpetrators have nothing to do with any country, this may lead to the "Nord Stream" bombing case being closed without identifying the real mastermind behind it. Russia cannot tolerate this happening.

The Wall Street Journal published an article on the 14th saying that a group of six Ukrainian active-duty soldiers and businessmen rented yachts and deep-diving equipment to sabotage the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline in September 2022 in retaliation for Russia's special military operation against Ukraine in February of that year. In response to the Wall Street Journal report, Russia believes that the United States is trying to shift all the responsibility for the Nord Stream explosion to Ukraine.

On September 26, 2022, the Baltic Sea submarine gas pipelines "Nord Stream 1" and "Nord Stream 2" connecting Russia, Germany and other European countries experienced violent underwater explosions in the waters near Denmark and Sweden, and a large amount of natural gas leaked. The investigation found that three of the four pipelines leaked, with a total of four leak points, suspected of being sabotaged. After the incident, Denmark, Sweden and Germany launched investigations respectively, but refused Russia's participation.