“To briefly retell the publication of Hersh: the order for the attack was personally given by Biden;
preparation was carried out for nine months;
led by National Security Adviser to the President of the United States Jake Sullivan;
US intelligence divers placed explosives on pipelines during NATO exercises;
the military of Norway participated in the operation, even options for an attack from a submarine and a strike with aerial bombs were considered, ”she wrote on Telegram.
Moscow has repeatedly voiced Russia's position on the involvement of the United States and NATO in this incident, the diplomat recalled.
Zakharova stressed that the West did not hide this, “bragging to the whole world about their intention to destroy the civilian infrastructure through which Europe received Russian energy resources.”
“We also regularly noted the reluctance of Denmark, Germany and Sweden to conduct an open investigation and opposition to Russia's participation in it.
And this despite the fact that our country has incurred huge costs.
All these facts should now be commented on in the White House, ”wrote the representative of the Foreign Ministry.
On February 8, an American investigative journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh, said that the explosives under the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines were planted by divers from the United States under the cover of NATO exercises.
According to him, the Norwegians activated the explosives.
He claims that US national security adviser Jake Sullivan was involved in the plan for the terrorist attack on the pipelines.