Administration Denies Claims US Blew Up Nord Stream Pipelines

The White House has dismissed as “complete fiction” a report by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh alleging that the U.S. was responsible for the sabotaging of the Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea last September, but the Kremlin said Thursday it must be taken seriously.

“It would be unfair not to give it attention,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. “Unfortunately, the article was not widely disseminated in the Western media, which cannot but cause our surprise.”

Peskov recalled that Russia had previously announced it had obtained evidence that “Anglo-Saxons” were behind the explosions. (The Kremlin said last October it had intelligence showing that Britain’s Royal Navy carried out the sabotage, an allegation denied by London.)

Hersh, who has won journalism’s top awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1970, but also attracted significant controversy with some past claims, made the allegations in a detailed report posted on Substack. – READ MORE