World leaders were quick to blame her Moscow for explosions in gas pipelines Nord Stream at the end of September, but now some Western officials doubt the Kremlin’s guilt.

After explosions badly damaged underwater pipelines that were built to transport gas from Russia to Europe, world leaders blamed it on a dangerous act of sabotage.

As winter approached, it appeared that at the time the Kremlin was attempting to cut off the flow of energy to the Old Continent as a “blackmail”, as some have put it, aimed at threatening Western countries with ending economic and military aid to the Old Continent. Ukraine.

But now, after months of investigation, many officials are privately saying that Russia may not be responsible for the attack on the pipelines.

“There is currently no evidence that Russia was behind the sabotage,” the European official said in a statement, echoing the assessment of 23 diplomatic and intelligence officials from at least nine countries.

Some even seem more confident that Russia was not behind the attack. Others, who still see Moscow as the prime suspect, pointed out that it might not be possible to pin the blame on any country.

In the months following the explosions, investigators toured the site and analyzed the remains of explosives found in the Baltic Sea.

Seismologists recorded the timing of three explosions on September 26 that caused four leaks in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines.

^{Source: Washington Post.}