Russia calls for an international investigation to determine if the US planted explosives in Nord Stream

9 Feb. () –

The chairman of the Russian State Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, has called for an international investigation to investigate the facts published by an American journalist that Washington had planted explosives in the Nord Stream gas pipelines.

“The published facts should become the basis of an international investigation, bring Biden and his accomplices to justice, as well as pay compensation to the countries affected by the terrorist attack,” Volodin said in a message posted on his Telegram account. .

According to the president of the Russian Lower House, American divers would have planted explosives in the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines “under the protection of NATO and with the support of Norway.” This strategy –says Volodin– “reminds” the German Third Reich.

Likewise, he has compared US President Joe Biden to former President Harry Truman: “If Truman became a criminal who used atomic weapons against civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then Biden became a terrorist who ordered the destruction of infrastructure energy of its strategic partners”.

Previously, journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh explained on his website that those responsible for the alleged sabotage are US Navy divers, who would have planted explosives during NATO’s ‘Baltops 22’ maneuvers.

According to the journalist, on September 26, a Norwegian Navy plane dropped a hydroacoustic buoy that detonated the explosive devices. Thus, he has explained that the decision to blow them up was made nine months after a “secret debate” by US national security agencies.

The White House has denied this Wednesday the accusations that the United States is behind the explosions registered in the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines in September 2022, reiterating that “it was not involved in the explosion.”

“The United States was not involved in the Nord Stream explosion,” Pentagon spokesman Garron Garn said in a brief statement to the aforementioned newspaper, reiterating the Defense Department’s response to the same accusation in October.