Anklagar USA för Nord Stream-explosioner
USA ligger bakom explosionerna vid gasledningarna Nord Stream 1 och 2 i höstas.
Det hävdar den prisvinnande journalisten Seymour Hersh.
Uppgifterna tillbakavisas av Vita huset, som kallar det för ”fullständig fiktion”.
Fyra teorier om Nord Stream-gasläckorna
Den grävande och Pulitzer-vinnande amerikanske journalisten Seymour Hersh har gjort en granskning som publicerats på hans blogg där USA pekas ut för att ligga bakom sprängningarna vid Nord Stream i höstas.
Enligt Hersh ska amerikanska militärdykare ha planterat sprängämnen på gasledningarna, skriver brittiska Daily mail.
Även Reuters och tidningen The Times har rapporterat om påståendena. Vita huset svarade under onsdagen på uppgifterna och kallade dem för ”fullständigt falska och fullständig fiktion”.
Rysslands utrikesdepartement sa på onsdagen att USA behöver svara på sin inblandning i explosionerna, efter uppgifterna från Hersh.
Ryssland har tidigare anklagat väst för att ligga bakom sprängningarna vid Nord Stream 1 och 2 förra året - men utan att peka på några konkreta bevis.
Det var i slutet av september förra året som läckor upptäcktes på gasledningarna
Why Nord Stream blast story's writer avoided mainstream
Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent many years as an investigative journalist for The New York Times, said he did not consider offering his latest story — in which he accuses the US and allies of bombing Russia's Nord Stream gas pipelines — to the newspaper because it has favored Ukraine in its yearlong military conflict with Russia.
Hersh spoke with Democracy Now!, which published a video of the interview on Feb
The veteran investigative journalist, 85, was asked about his latest piece on , which was published on Feb 8 and titled, How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline.
In the 5,word article, Hersh alleges that on Sept 26, , US Navy divers, aided by Norway, planted explosives that destroyed three of the four natural gas pipelines that make up Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2.
The pipelines, which have a terminus in Germany, supplied European nations with an affordable energy source.
The White House has called Hersh's article "utterly false and complete fiction".
On Thursday, the Russian embassy to the United States said that it should try to prove it was not behind the destru
Seymour Hersh
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The authorities of Denmark and Sweden knew about what happened on the &#;Nord Streams&#; and who was involved in the undermining, and perhaps that is why they chose to fail their investigations into the case. This was stated by American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh in his blog.
Earlier, German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that the Swedish prosecutor&#;s office plans to close its investigation into the Nord Stream sabotage because it probably failed to identify suspects. The Swedish prosecutor&#;s office intends to announce its decision on the case on Wednesday.
&#;The failure of the two countries to investigate may stem from the fact that I am told that some senior officials in both countries understood exactly what was going on,&#; Hersh wrote.
He noted that both Sweden and Denmark knew that &#;the US had been practising diving in the Baltic Sea for months before the bombings.
&#; In addition, the journalist points out, &#;there is no evidence that [U.S. President Joe] Biden has instructed his experts to investigate&#; the explosions in the 16 months since the pipelines were destroyed. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Hersch adds, has also &
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