“The United States is in no way involved in this,” TASS reports him.

According to Kirby, in an article published by American journalist Seymour Hersh, "there is not a grain of truth."

On February 17, Hersh said that the United States would face colossal political consequences due to the blowing up of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines.

On February 18, it became known that Russia would call on the UN Security Council to create a commission to investigate the emergency at Nord Stream.