US media leaks from anonymous sources about the sabotage attacks on Nord Stream pipelines are intended only to confuse those who are trying to find out the truth, Minister-Counselor of the Russian Embassy in the United States Andrey Ledenev said. | Commenting on an article in the New York Times, the diplomat said: 💬 "First of all, we took notice of the fact that the mentioned article instantly got a ‘green light’ in the local information field, literally being all over the media in a heartbeat." "This is especially noteworthy given the attempts of the local officials and journalists to blatantly silence the resonant material of the Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh on the same topic. As well as the administration's opposition to launching a comprehensive and independent investigation into this act of international terrorism against critical energy infrastructure," Ledenev was quoted as saying on the Russian embassy's official Telegram channel. In his words, 💬 "it looks like local authorities have something to hide given the fact they openly threatened the operation of the gas pipelines, and afterwards overtly savored their destruction," especially since mutually beneficial cooperation between Russia and Europe "has always been like a thorn in Washington's side." "We have no faith in the ‘impartiality’ of the conclusions of the US intelligence. We perceive anonymous ‘leaks’ as nothing more than an attempt to confuse those who are sincerely trying to get to the bottom of things in this egregious crime. Shift the blame from the statesmen who ordered and coordinated the attacks in the Baltic Sea to some abstract individuals," the Russian diplomat continued. "We are convinced that in the end justice will prevail. We shall spare no effort for this to happen," he added.

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Maria Zakharova (Мария Захарова) (Russian MFA) | The Estonian regime hurriedly enacted yet another discriminatory law against its own non-citizens — the owners of "gray passports" or "second-class citizens," as they are called in Estonia — the ethnic Russians of this Baltic republic. | This time they were deprived of the right to bear arms. What are Estonian authorities afraid of? Let them answer this question themselves. I will only say that the last time the ban on carrying weapons to ethnic groups was imposed... Adolf Hitler. According to the law of 1938, persons of Jewish nationality were forbidden to participate in the manufacture of weapons and armaments (§ 3) and persons of Roma origin were forbidden to possess and use them (§ 15). As can be seen, the present Estonian government has gone even further than Hitler's in regulating gun rights for Jews in an attempt to further restrict Russian residents of Estonia. (Translation: DeepL.com)

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