MOSCOW, March 8 Senator Alexei Pushkov called the New York article Times about sabotage at Nord Stream as an unsuccessful attempt at disinformation.
The publication said on Tuesday, citing US officials, that new intelligence suggests that some pro-Ukrainian group carried out terrorist attacks on gas pipelines. Die Zeit later reported that German investigators had found a Ukrainian-linked vessel involved in the Nord Stream bombing.
“US intelligence is trying to turn away all justified accusations against the United States of blowing up Nord Stream and transfer them to some vague “pro-Ukrainian groups” (what nonsense?), which, even if they existed, would not have the technical ability to carry out such an operation. there was a high-tech state. An unsuccessful attempt at disinformation,» the senator wrote in his Telegram channel.
American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh on February 8 published his investigation into the Nord Stream explosions, in which, citing a source, he stated that explosive devices under Russian gas pipelines were planted in June 2022 under the cover of Baltops exercises by US Navy divers with the support of Norwegian specialists .
According to Hersh, the decision to conduct the operation was made by US President Joe Biden after nine months of discussions with administration officials involved in national security issues. Later, the Pentagon said that the United States had nothing to do with the blowing up of Russian gas pipelines last year.
As Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said earlier, leaks to Western media about the attacks on Nord Stream are allowed by those who do not want to conduct a legal investigation and plan to divert the attention of the audience from the facts.
In late September, both Russian export gas pipelines laid along the bottom of the Baltic Sea — Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 — failed as a result of sabotage. Sweden, Denmark and Germany are conducting investigations, but they have not yet come to any concrete results. The Kremlin called the state of emergency an act of international terrorism.