{"id":260531,"date":"2022-10-30T08:32:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T08:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=260531"},"modified":"2022-11-01T07:50:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T07:50:35","slug":"british-navy-involved-in-nord-stream-2-terrorist-attack-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=260531","title":{"rendered":"British navy involved in Nord Stream 2 &#8216;terrorist attack&#8217; \u2013 Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RT.com \u2013 Oct 29, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Units of the British Navy were involved in a <em>&#8220;terrorist attack&#8221;<\/em>, which destroyed the key Nord Stream gas pipelines, the Russian Defence Ministry alleged on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on its official Telegram channel, the ministry alleged that Royal Navy operatives <em>\u201ctook part in planning, supporting and implementing\u201d<\/em> the plot to blow up the infrastructure in September. It did not provide any direct evidence to support its assertion.<\/p>\n<p>The accusation follows a Russian Foreign Ministry claim that NATO conducted a military exercise during the summer, close to the location where the undersea explosions occurred.<\/p>\n<p>The September incident put the pipelines, connecting Germany to Russia, out of commission. Western countries have blocked a transparent international investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The Defence Ministry further alleged that the same UK operatives trained Ukrainians involved in a drone offensive in Crimea earlier on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In late September, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted that this summer, NATO conducted military drills not far from Bornholm, which featured intensive use of <em>\u201cdeep-sea equipment.\u2019\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While the officials stopped short of naming the culprit, they were said to be <em>\u201cworking under the assumption that Russia was behind the blasts.\u201d<\/em> Moscow has repeatedly denied that it had anything to do with the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sky News has cited a UK defense official as saying Nord Stream 1 and 2 could have been damaged by a remotely detonated underwater explosive device. At the time, the broadcaster said the pipelines might have been breached by mines lowered to the seabed, or explosives dropped from a boat or planted by an undersea drone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/565577-nord-stream-uk-attack\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia claims that elements of the Royal Navy \u201ctook part in planning, supporting and implementing\u201d the explosions that ruptured the Nord Stream pipeline in September. Furthermore, Russia also claims that the same UK operatives trained Ukrainians involved in a drone offensive in Crimea on Saturday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":259181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260534,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260531\/revisions\/260534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/259181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}