Russia’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, Dmitry Polianski, has announced that Moscow has requested a meeting of the UN Security Council on February 22 to address the explosions on the Nord Stream pipeline last September.
In a message launched on his official Telegram channel, Polianski has detailed that the meeting has been requested «in light of new information about the pipeline detonation», thus alluding to the investigation published by journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh, which pointed directly to the United States of being behind the sabotage.
According to Hersh, U.S. Navy divers would have been responsible for the alleged sabotage, as they would have placed explosives during the Atlantic Alliance’s ‘Baltops 22’ maneuvers. «Three months later they destroyed three of the four branches of the pipeline,» the journalist said.
On September 26, Nord Stream 2 AG, operator of the Russian gas pipeline of the same name, announced a gas leak for unknown reasons in one of the two pipelines of the infrastructure near the Danish island of Bornholm.
Subsequently, authorities reported that two branches of the parallel Nord Stream 1 pipeline were also damaged. Germany, Denmark and Sweden did not rule out an act of sabotage just eight months after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service labeled the explosions as terrorist attacks and on September 30 revealed that it had evidence pointing to the involvement of Western countries.
In addition to the call proposed by Russia for February 22, the United Nations Security Council has scheduled a special session for February 24, the one-year anniversary of the outbreak of the war in Ukraine following the invasion ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
