MOSCOW, December 18. /TASS/. Media reports about Western intelligence agencies being behind the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions seem plausible, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Channel One’s Great Game show.

According to him, one Western media outlet recently reported that a special forces group from a Western intelligence agency was involved in blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, using equipment that allowed them to dive as deep as 250 meters.

"I don’t know if this will be the final conclusion in case the related trial ever comes to a close, but it sounds much more plausible than the story that six people traveling on the Andromeda yacht with five bottles of wine jumped into the water and conducted this act of terrorism," Lavrov pointed out.

The top Russian diplomat sees every reason to believe that "experts from special units in Anglo-Saxon and other countries were actively engaged and continue to be engaged in terrorist attacks."

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during his combined Direct Line Q&A session and year-end press conference that the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines had most likely been blown up by the Americans or someone else acting at their behest.