“People associated with Ukraine probably did this ... It was not us and probably not Russians,” Politico quoted a representative of the US Congress on condition of anonymity.
Earlier, the British newspaper The Times reported that Western intelligence agencies knew about the Ukrainian trace in the terrorist attack on the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines a week after the explosions.
The publication claims that, "according to the investigation," a certain "private Ukrainian sponsor" was involved in the sabotage, allegedly not associated with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The publication noted that any involvement of Ukraine in undermining the Nord Streams will have serious consequences for the coalition supporting Kyiv in the confrontation with Russia.
After that, the press secretary of the President of Russia, Dmitry Peskov, expressed the opinion that the publications about the terrorist attacks on the Nord Streams were a coordinated stuffing.
The Russian embassy in the United States said that the leaks in the American media are an attempt to confuse those who are sincerely trying to understand this issue.
At the same time, American journalist Seymour Hersh previously published an investigation into the US involvement in the Nord Stream incident.
The Hersh investigation alleges that US divers mined Nord Stream under the cover of the BALTOPS 22 exercise, which took place in the Baltic Sea from June 5 to June 17, 2022.