Britain has rejected Russian accusations that the Royal Navy was responsible for explosions at the Nord Stream 1 and 2 Baltic Sea gas pipelines. “To detract from their disastrous handling of the illegal invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defence is resorting to peddling false claims of an epic scale,” the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) tweeted on Saturday. “This invented story says more about arguments going on inside the Russian government than it does about the West,” the ministry said. The Russian Defence Ministry accused British forces earlier of directing the Ukrainian milita…