“Certainly, there needs to be analyzed,” he said.

According to him, a journalistic investigation cannot be taken as a primary source, but it is a very important material that should provoke an acceleration of an international investigation.

Peskov added that instead, there are attempts to silently wind down this international investigation.

Earlier, an American investigative journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh, said that US Navy divers planted explosives under Nord Stream.

In his article, he wrote that the pipelines were mined during the NATO exercises Baltops 22 using remotely activated devices.

The White House and the CIA, in response to a request for comment, called this information "lies" and "fiction."