Russia called on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to hold an emergency meeting to discuss what was recently published about the explosions that occurred in the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and the allegations about the involvement of the United States and Western countries in them.
An explosion on September 26, 2022 severely damaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 lines in the Baltic Sea, which transport Russian gas to Europe, and Russia and Western countries exchanged accusations about responsibility for the bombing.
It was later revealed that the damage to the Russian pipelines was the result of deliberate action, but ambiguity remained the master of the situation as to who was behind it.
"There are plenty of facts here; the pipeline explosion, motives and evidence obtained by journalists from which conclusions can be drawn," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote late last night on Telegram.
Zakharova asked: "So when will an emergency NATO summit be held to discuss the situation?"
Investigative investigation
And the American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh claimed in an investigation - according to the British newspaper "The Times" - that divers in the US Navy last June - with the help of Norway - planted explosives on the pipeline, which runs between Russia and Germany under Baltic Sea waters, to blow it up after 3 months.
Hersh stated in his investigation that the bombing came as part of a secret operation ordered by the White House and carried out by the CIA.
The journalist - who won the Pulitzer Prize - wrote in a post last Wednesday, quoting an anonymous source, that the bombing took place on the orders of US President Joe Biden, but the White House denied these allegations, describing them as "completely false and pure fiction."
A CIA spokesman also reiterated the White House's denial, calling the report "completely and utterly false."
US National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson described Hersh's investigation as "a figment of the imagination."
In turn, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said - in response to Hersh's claim that Oslo supported the process - that "these allegations are false."
According to Hirsch's investigation, the American divers used NATO military exercises "in the area as cover, planted mines along Russian pipelines and later detonated them remotely."
The exercises referred to are those announced last summer, known as Operations Baltic 22, and conducted in June off the German coast.
According to Hersh's investigation, Biden's decision to blow up Russian pipelines came after more than 9 months of secret planning with the US national security agencies, noting that "all that time it was not about whether that mission should be done, but about the ways to accomplish it, by without leaving evidence pointing to the party responsible for it.”
Sweden and Denmark - whose exclusive economic zones had the bombings - concluded that the pipelines had been blown up deliberately, but did not say who was responsible.
While the United States and NATO described the incident as an "act of sabotage", Moscow accused the West of being responsible for the explosions, which resulted in cracks in the pipes, and neither side provided evidence for what it says.