MOSCOW, February 10. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said it’s ridiculous that the US can’t be held to account for its sabotage attacks on worldwide infrastructure.
She recollected the 1984 incident when Nicaragua appealed to the UN international court following sabotage at the country’s energy infrastructure.
"The arbitration then ruled Washington was guilty and ordered it to pay damages. Is that nonsense?" the diplomat said.
"You did it, you are doing it and you will be doing it until you are stopped," Zakharova said, commenting on such activity. "The US blocked the relevant resolution and no one was punished for that sabotage. That’s what is nonsensical: the lack of an opportunity to hold the US responsible, not that Washington has historically done that."
"Mister Price, it’s not nonsense, it's the history of your country. It’s the history of the United States of America," Zakharova added.
US State Department Spokesman Ned Price said earlier that the US denies they were involved in the explosions on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines and believes its explanations on the matter are credible. He called the theory laid out by US journalist Seymour Hersh complete and utter nonsense.
On February 8, Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published an article where he said, citing a source, that explosives were planted under the Russian Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines by US Navy divers under the guise of the Baltops exercise in June. The story stated that US president Joe Biden personally authorized the operation.