Russia failed to win enough votes in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for its proposed resolution to investigate the Nord Stream explosions.
Source: CNN
Details: Only three countries voted in favor of the proposed resolution, while 12 countries abstained.
This resolution needed at least nine “yes” votes to pass, but the United States could still veto it if it wanted to.
US Ambassador Robert Wood told the UN Security Council that the US had nothing to do with the attack on the “streams”. He also questioned why Russia would try to pass a resolution after most members of the UN Security Council expressed opposition to the idea.
Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s ambassador to the UN, said the truth would not be revealed and called for accountability.
background:
- On February 8, American journalist Seymour Hersh stated, citing a source, that explosions on pipelines were committed by order of US President Joe Biden. Representatives of the White House and the CIA called the report that the country’s leadership allegedly ordered explosions on gas pipelines to be a fabrication.
- In early March, The New York Times published an article citing intelligence community sources and data. They allegedly suggest that non-governmental groups could be behind the explosion of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, into which could include Russians and Ukrainians.
- President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine is not involved in the explosionsthat took place in September on the branches of the Russian Nord Stream gas pipelines, and proposed to analyze which players could need such information stuffing.
- The German portal t-online reported that a few days before the explosions on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines, Russian warships were near them.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that US intelligence agencies are behind the explosions at Nord Stream.
