Russia reacts with usual petulance to being blamed for Nord Stream pipe blast

The Kremlin has said it was ‘stupid and absurd’ to conclude that Russia is behind the major gas leaks in the Baltic Sea.

European leaders said ‘deliberate actions’ caused the damage to the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines but did not divulge any further details about the outcome of a possible investigation.

Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen said sabotage could not be ruled out and her words were also backed by Sweden’s acting prime minister Magdalena Andersson.

Yesterday, Ukraine went as far as to say the natural gas leaks were a ‘terrorist attack’ by Moscow.

Presidential adviser Mykhaylo Podolyak said the damage to the pipelines was ‘an act of aggression’ towards the EU.

But Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov rebuffed any suggestion that his government is behind the incident near Denmark.

‘It’s quite predictable and also predictably stupid to give voice to these kinds of narratives – predictably stupid and absurd,’ he told reporters today.

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