Nord Stream gas leak investigation

8 Feb 2023, 17:21

Russian Security Council’s secretary says he does not know who blew up Nord Stream

National Security Council spokesperson, Adrienne Watson, in response to a request from TASS, described Hersh’s version as "utterly false and complete fiction"

MOSCOW, February 8. /TASS/. The secretary of Russia’s Security Council, Nikolay Patrushev, has refrained from comments on media rumors the United States might have been behind the explosions of Nord Stream pipelines.

"I have no information as to who staged the explosions," he said in reply to a media question.

US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh said in an article published on Wednesday US Navy divers, under the cover of the Baltops exercise, planted explosive devices beneath Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline last June. Hersh claimed that the decision on the operation was made personally by US President Joe Biden.

National Security Council spokesperson, Adrienne Watson, in response to a request from TASS, described Hersh’s version as "utterly false and complete fiction."

On September 27 last year, Nord Stream AG reported unprecedented damage that occurred the day before on three strings of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 offshore gas pipelines. Swedish seismologists on September 26 registered two explosions on pipeline routes. Russia’s Prosecutor General's Office launched criminal proceedings over an act of international terrorism.

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