Kremlin reacts to Nord Stream sabotage claim

A fresh article alleging a US role in the explosions highlights the need for an international probe, Dmitry Peskov says | Russia is concerned by attempts to silently wind down the investigation into last year’s explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov has said. A report by renowned American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, blaming the US for the sabotage, should spur attempts to find out what happened, he stressed. Articles such as the one by Hersh show 💬 “the need for an open international investigation into this unprecedented attack on this critical infrastructure,” Peskov told the media on Thursday. “It’s impossible to leave this without finding the perpetrators and punishing them.” Russia has already spoken about data which “points to the involvement of the Anglo-Saxons [the US and the UK]” in this incident, and there is “certain overlapping” between this information and the report by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, the Kremlin spokesman said.

🇨🇳 US urged to explain Nord Stream blasts after Pulitzer winner's probe (Global Times)
■ How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline (02/09/23)

■ РИА Новости | Flightradar Spotted P-8A Poseidon Near Nord Stream Explosion Site | Igor Korotchenko: "Taking into account that the route of American P-8A Poseidon was calculated with refuelling over Poland and all these moments had to be synchronised, one can say that its arrival at the scheduled time, immediately after the attack, indicates a pre-planned flight and, therefore, is another confirmation of the version put forward by the American journalist Hersh about the causes and circumstances of the attack. This once again proves the involvement of official US government agencies in this sabotage." ● "Vladimir Putin called the incident an apparent terrorist attack." (RIA Novosti)[DeepL.com]

■ Varvara Kuzmina | US Spy Plane Spotted After North Stream Explosion | "Russia has threatened consequences over the undermining of Nord Stream. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said that Moscow would not leave the story of the undermining of Russian gas pipelines without consequences. He also stressed that Russia intended to seek access to the investigation. ● Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov also commented on the situation. He stressed the need for an open international investigation into the incident." (lenta.ru)[DeepL.com]

■ CaitlinJohnstone | Russia would stand nothing to gain by bombing its own pipeline whose gas flow it could control on its own end, while US officials are openly acknowledging that the US benefits from it directly. It's just so silly how imperial spinmeisters are falling all over themselves to dismiss a claim they all privately know is true because it's so glaringly obvious.
■ Ben Norton | In this video I discuss Seymour Hersh's bombshell report that the US blew up Nord Stream. I also look at other evidence he didn't mention. Norway & Poland opened their own Baltic pipeline hours after the sabotage. US is now the world's largest LNG exporter.