Ukraine government was not behind explosions on gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 in September last year, says Ukrainian Minister of Defence Oleksii Reznikov, according to AFP.

”We were not involved,” he says to journalists in Stockholm at a meeting of EU defence ministers.

On Tuesday, the New York Post reported that US officials had been given insights into intelligence indicating that a pro-Ukrainian group was behind the explosions.

And Reznikov’s statements are aligned with the US officials’, as the Times reported that the US has ”no evidence” linking the attack to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky or his top aides.

Nor that Ukrainian officials should have ordered the sabotage.

Details are sparse in the New York Times story but reports state that the new intelligence points in the direction of an anti-Kremlin group to have carried out the sabotage.

The story has not been confirmed by any intelligence agencies, governments or other authorities.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitrij Peskov raises questions about the US officials’ theory.

”How can American officials assume anything without an investigation,” he says to the state RIA news agency, according to Reuters.

Ever since the two gas pipelines were blown up in the end of September, the air has been rife with accusations as to who was at fault

In the west, many estimated that Russia must have blown up the pipelines set to keep natural gas flowing from Russia to Germany.

Russia denied the allegations, and Moscow has recently called for an international investigation to be carried out.

The explosions occurred off the coast of Danish island Bornholm and Southern Sweden. They were quickly linked to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Ongoing joint investigation is currently underway in Denmark, Sweden and Germany. Most recently, the three countries informed that they hadn’t finished investigations and therefore couldn’t make any conclusions.

On Tuesday, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the US government will await the three countries’ report.

Kremlin says on Tuesday, that the New York Times’ story only strengthens Russian call for an international investigation, writes Reuters.

Russia is expected to present a resolution to a vote in the end of March in the UN Security Council where they will call on UN secretary general António Guterres to launch an investigation.