MOSCOW, March 24 American sabotage on the Nord Stream gas pipelines «allow today the United States to be called a terrorist state, and over time, these actions will become the subject of legal proceedings, they will have to pay off their debts,» said Andranik Migranyan, a political scientist and professor at MGIMO of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
«With regard to the Nord Streams and the destruction of these gas pipelines, among so many criminal acts of the Americans, this occupies a special place. In fact, the investigation of Seymour Hersh dealt a colossal blow to the reputation of the United States and it is quite obvious that today it is possible to define the American state as a terrorist state, and it committed a terrorist act,» he said during a press conference organized by the Rossiya Segodnya media group.
The United States struck not only against its potential adversary, but also against the property of its NATO ally, Germany, and, in fact, against the economic interests of the allies in Europe.
“In the end, the truth will come to light, and the Americans will be even more discredited. If now they have a sense of superior power, dominance and resources, leverage on the international community, over time, these actions will become the subject of legal proceedings, condemnation. Not only that — over time, they will have to pay off their debts, because what they have committed is a colossal crime… Their goals and objectives to inflict damage on Russia turned out to be very difficult consequences for them,» he stressed.
In February 2023, Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist Seymour Hersh 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 experts. 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. The Pentagon later said that the US had nothing to do with blowing up Russian gas pipelines last year.
In September last year, two Russian export gas pipelines to Europe, Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2, exploded at once. Germany, Denmark and Sweden did not rule out targeted sabotage. Nord Stream 2 AG, the operator of Nord Stream 2, reported that the state of emergency on gas pipelines was unprecedented and it was impossible to estimate the timing of repairs. The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia initiated a case on an act of international terrorism. 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 said that the explosion on the gas pipeline is an obvious terrorist attack.