NEW YORK, March 7. /TASS/. Journalist Seymour Hersh on Tuesday declined to assess the credibility of a New York Times report that a pro-Ukrainian group carried out the Nord Stream undersea natural gas pipelines.

"I don't want to get into it," he told TASS, when asked to comment on the report and how whether it agrees with his own conclusions. "You should decide for yourself. It's up to you."

Asked further if he thought the New York Times report was a response to his earlier investigation, Hersh also suggested that people make their own conclusions.

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on February 8 published an article where he said, citing a source, that explosives under the Russian Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines were planted by US Navy divers, helped by Norwegian specialists, under the guise of the Baltops exercise in June. The story stated that the CIA and Burns took part in the preparation of the operation, and US president Joe Biden personally authorized the operation after nine months of deliberations with the administration’s national security staff. Adrienne Watson, a spokesperson for the National Security Council at the White House, responded to a request for comment from TASS that the story laid out by Hersh was totally false and complete fiction.