View towards Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline and the transfer station of the Baltic Sea Pipeline Link in the industrial area of Lubmin, Germany, August 30, 2022. REUTERS FILE PHOTO
The United States should try to prove it was not behind the destruction of the Nord Stream gas pipelines that connected Russia to Western Europe, the Russian embassy to the United States said on Thursday.
Moscow considers the destruction of Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines last September 鈥渁n act of international terrorism鈥� and will not allow it to be swept under the rug, the embassy said in a statement.
The embassy referred to a blog post by journalist Seymour Hersh citing an unidentified source as saying that U.S. Navy divers had destroyed the pipelines with explosives on the orders of President Joe Biden.
The White House has dismissed the allegations as 鈥渦tterly false and complete fiction鈥�.
U.S. Department of State spokesman Ned Price said on Wednesday 鈥渋t is pure disinformation that the United States was behind what transpired鈥� with Nord Stream, provoking the fresh Russian comment.
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