Moscow will demand from the governments of Germany, Denmark and Sweden the reports of their investigations into the attacks on the Russian Nord Stream gas pipelines, said the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, during a briefing on Thursday.

Zakharova stressed that the Russian government will continue to demand an independent inquiry into those attacks.

This week, the UN Security Council failed to pass a Russian-Chinese draft resolution calling for an international investigation into the gas pipeline explosions.

However, at that meeting of the organization, a number of countries from Africa, Asia and Latin America asked Germany, Denmark and Sweden to "present the results of their investigations to the Council as soon as possible," said the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry.

As long as these three European nations do not fully cooperate in this matter, "you cannot talk about transparency, but, on the contrary, you have to talk about their desire to prevent as much as possible a real inquiry from being carried out," she valued.

An "uncomfortable" issue for the West

"We are going to continue insisting on this issue, which for the West is of course uncomfortable," added Zajárova.

"Preventing similar attacks in the future and protecting the global energy infrastructure will only be possible by establishing the truth and punishing those behind the attack," she concluded.

Previously, the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, also denounced that the West does not want an "impartial, objective and transparent" investigation into the blowing up of the gas pipelines.

"Everybody understands that they were terrorist attacks, but [...] they don't want this investigation to be really objective," the minister declared.

"With one voice, the Western countries and the rest of the Security Council, which, under pressure from the Anglo-Saxons, the French and others who joined the group of countries that abstained, said: 'Why waste effort if there are investigations? nationals,'" criticized Lavrov.

(Taken from Russia Today)