The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Washington should respond to accusations made during the investigation by American journalist Seymour Hersh of US involvement in the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September last year The White House to comment on the “facts” presented.
“The White House must now comment on all these facts,” Zakharova said in a message on her Telegram account, summarizing the evidence presented by Hersh of US involvement.
She added: “We have repeatedly expressed Russia’s position on the involvement of the United States and NATO, which did not hide this and boasted to the whole world of their intention to destroy civilian infrastructure.”
According to Russia Today in Arabic, Zakharova pointed out that Russia has always noted the reluctance of Denmark, Germany and Sweden to conduct an open investigation and opposition to Moscow’s participation in it, “despite the huge costs incurred by the Russian Federation.”
For his part, Secretary General of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, Russia’s second-in-command, confirmed that he had no information about who set off the Nord Stream bombings. Russia Today quoted Patrushev in Arabic: “If they mentioned it, you can ask them. I don’t know who blew it up.”
