MOSCOW, March 10. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called the latest reports in the Western media about the alleged involvement of a Ukrainian oligarch in the explosions on the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines incoherent babble.
When they threw in the last wave of stories in the American and to some extent in the German press regarding a new version [about the causes of the emergency on gas pipelines] about the Ukrainian oligarch, who had better confess himself, [and that they] did not want to talk about Ukraine’s involvement, because it could spoil German Ukrainian relations and all that jazz: this is incoherent babble, he said.
In an interview with The Great Game program on Channel One, the Russian top diplomat noted that even if one accepts the rationale about the Ukrainian fingerprint mentioned in the media, it will raise some questions in Germany.
The burghers will wonder: why do I need this Ukraine at all, if they blow us up, whoever he (the saboteur TASS) may be an agent of Kiev, paid for by someone from abroad, or just a lone ranger, why do I need to send Leopards there, why do I need to admit this country into NATO? Lavrov said.
Yes, now [German Chancellor Olaf] Scholz is boasting: We survived the winter, Russia’s plan did not work. We had no plans. They had plans to abandon Russian gas. They survived the winter, but how much did it cost the government and the taxpayers? They are not very eager to tell, Lavrov said.
He also called the coverage of the incident in the Western media frivolous, citing as an example their information about the establishment of a Ukrainian connection in the emergencies on the gas pipelines.
There was information in the Wall Street Journal, if I’m not mistaken, where they said that back in June and July, the CIA warned the secret services of Germany and other European countries about a Ukrainian trail for the plot. And in September, after the attack took place, The Times said that a week after the explosion it was established that the trail was Ukrainian. So, in June they warned that there would be [a Ukrainian trace] and in September it was established that it was. Anyway, they look at it in a very juvenile way, not the way an adult should, he concluded. |
