Furthermore, the minister emphasized that the German authorities must provide Russia and the international community with the results of the investigation into the attack on Russian gas pipelines. “Germany must answer all questions. First of all, they must stop categorically refusing to present the facts that they managed to discover,” Lavrov said, adding that the fact that information about the explosion was not provided to Russia, but appearing in the German and North American media, suggests that “this is all a setup.”

According to Russia’s Foreign Minister, Western attempts to blame “a group of drunken officers”, saying that, together with businessmen who drank with them, they hired someone or decided to learn to dive themselves”, are not “serious”. “Even that some of the people mentioned in the German press, who are Ukrainians, were somehow involved in this, it is clear that they could not have done it alone,” Lavrov said. He emphasized that it took an order from Washington to carry out “a terrorist attack like this.”