MOSCOW, October 30. /TASS/. The claim that Ukrainian divers were responsible for sabotaging the Nord Stream pipeline is nothing more than nonsense, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said during the Rossiya-1 television channel’s “60 Minutes” program.

“We read reports suggesting that some drunk Ukrainian officers claimed that they were going to blow them up (the pipelines – TASS). I’m exaggerating a bit, but imagine: they use a small boat to get to the pipeline, several hundred people are submerged meters with flares and pyrotechnics , and they manage to blow everything up. This is nonsense,” he said.

On August 14, the Suddeutsche Zeitung reported that German prosecutors had issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian diving instructor who may be involved in the Nord Stream sabotage. The report indicated that two other Ukrainian diving instructors could also be involved. German prosecutors also stressed that Poland does not cooperate with them. According to them, Poland “from the beginning was not willing to cooperate.”

On September 27, 2022, Nord Stream AG reported “unprecedented damage” to three sections of marine gas pipelines in the Nord Stream system. Swedish seismologists later said they had identified two explosions on the route of the Nord Stream pipelines on September 26, 2022. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the time that Moscow had no doubt that the Sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines had been carried out with US support. Following the incident, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office initiated a criminal case for international terrorism.