Nord Stream blast: U.S. rejects claims of its involvement

Nord Stream blast is back in news after a veteran U.S. investigative journalist seems to have claimed in a report that the explosion was carried out by the officials of Washington.

The report has created a huge political storm, involving many nations. The sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines was carried out last year.

The U.S. officials have rejected the self-published report of American journalist Seymour Hersh on Substack web service.


In the report on his page, the veteran investigative journalist wrote that U.S. Navy divers, who were helped by Norway, planted explosives on the pipelines running under the Baltic Sea between Russia and Germany in June last year. These explosives were detonated three months later.

The report has been described as "complete fiction" by White House National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson. The Central Intelligence Agency spokesperson has also called the report "completely and utterly false."

When asked about the claim of Hersh that Oslo supported the operation, the Norwegian foreign ministry said that "these claims are false."

The Nord Stream pipelines are multibillion-dollar infrastructure projects, which have been designed to carry Russian gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea.

The incident was called "an act of sabotage" by the United States and NATO. The West was blamed by Russia for the unexplained explosions, which caused the ruptures.

The pipelines were blown up deliberately, concluded Sweden and Denmark, the countries in whose exclusive economic zones the blasts occurred. Both have not said who might be responsible.

The United States has questions to answer over its role in the Nord Stream pipelines’ explosions, said Russia's foreign ministry on Wednesday.

The decision to bomb the Nord Stream pipelines, which were closed but had residual gas, was taken by U.S. President Joe Biden to curb Russia's ability to earn billions of dollars from natural gas sales to Europe, as per Hersh.

FAQs

Q1.Who is Seymour Hersh?
Seymour Hersh is an award winning American journalist.

Q2.When did the Nord Stream blast occur?
September 26, 2022