The Kremlin said on Wednesday afternoon that Western media “got it wrong again” in its investigation of a Russian ghost fleet that allegedly operated in the North Sea, gathering intelligence and preparing sabotage, Interfax reported.

“These mass media in the mentioned countries made mistakes in their investigation. They again baselessly prefer to blame Russia for everything,” Kremlin press secretary Dmytro Peskov said.

“We would like them (rather than Western news agencies) to pay more attention to the topic of the Nord Stream terrorist attack and the need for a transparent, urgent and comprehensive international investigation of these unprecedented acts of terrorist sabotage,” he added.

We will remind you that Russia has repeatedly demanded that an international investigation with its participation be launched into the explosions that seriously damaged the Nord Stream-1 and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines at the bottom of the Baltic Sea in September of last year, and has sharply condemned the refusal. countries of Northern Europe and Germany to allow Russian investigators to participate in investigations initiated by these states.

Peskov’s comments on Wednesday came after broadcasters from several European countries, including the BBC, DR (Denmark), SVT (Sweden) and NRK (Finland), simultaneously published a joint investigation earlier this morning which concluded that Russia had wind diversion plan. farms and cut communication cables in the North Sea.

The investigation was rejected by the Kremlin

A Danish counterintelligence officer quoted by the investigation says the sabotage plans were prepared in case the war in Ukraine escalates into a conflict with the West, while the head of Norwegian intelligence told investigative journalists that the program is considered very important by Russia and is controlled directly from Moscow .

Russian communications intercepted and analyzed for the report show that there are so-called Russian “ghost ships” operating in the North Sea that have turned off their transmitters and are therefore untraceable, the most famous of which is the Admiral Volodymyrsky.

Officially, this is a ship for oceanographic expeditions, therefore research. But the investigation claims that it is actually a Russian reconnaissance ship.

The investigation, released on Wednesday, comes after the MIVD, the Netherlands’ military intelligence service, directly accused Russia in February of trying to gather information to sabotage critical infrastructure on the Dutch side of the North Sea.

A joint report by the MIVD and the AIVD, the Netherlands’ domestic intelligence service, published on February 20 said that critical maritime infrastructure such as internet cables, gas pipelines and wind farms have been targeted for Russian sabotage.

“Russia is covertly mapping this infrastructure and taking actions that indicate preparations for sabotage and disruption,” said a report by two Dutch intelligence agencies.

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