MOSCOW, February 9 Those who committed the attack on the Nord Stream can repeat it anywhere in the world, said the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov.
«This is a very, very dangerous precedent. If someone committed it once, he can commit it anywhere in the world a second time. There are not many countries in the world that can commit such sabotage,» Peskov told reporters.
American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh earlier confirmed the authorship of the article about the explosions on the first and second Nord Stream gas pipelines. Hersh's publication says that American divers during the NATO exercises Baltops in the summer of 2022 installed explosives under the Nord Streams, which the Norwegians activated three months later. US President Joe Biden decided to sabotage Nord Stream after more than nine months of secret discussions with the national security team, Hersh said. Later, the Pentagon said that the US had nothing to do with blowing up Russia's Nord Stream gas export pipelines last year.
Terror attacks took place on September 26, 2022, on two Russian export gas pipelines to Europe at once — Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2. Germany, Denmark and Sweden do not rule out targeted sabotage. The Nord Stream operator Nord Stream AG reported that the state of emergency on gas pipelines is unprecedented and it is impossible to estimate the repair time. The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation initiated a case on an act of international terrorism after the damage to the Nord Stream gas pipelines. On October 31, Russian President Vladimir Putin reported that Gazprom was allowed to inspect the site of the explosion, and the head of the company, Alexei Miller, reported to him about the inspection. Putin also said that the explosion on the Nord Stream gas pipeline is an obvious terrorist act.